Clause 71

The Minister may make rules to provide for the removal from roads and the safe custody of vehicles (including any loads carried thereby) which have broken down or which have been permitted to remain at rest on a road in such a position or in such condition or in such circumstances as to be likely to cause danger to persons using the road or to appear to have been abandoned.

The Deputy Commissioner of Police may detain any vehicle so removed until the expenses of removal and charges for detention have been paid and any such vehicle shall remain at the risk of the owner and person offending until such expenses and charges have been paid.

If any vehicle so detained has not been claimed by the owner within three months from the date of detention, the Deputy Commissioner of Police may, after due notice in the Gazette and after giving not less than one month’s notice in writing to the owner (if the name and address of such person is known to him), sell by public auction or otherwise dispose of such vehicle. The proceeds, if any, from the sale or disposal of any such vehicle shall be applied in the payment of any charges incurred in carrying out the provisions of this section and the surplus, if any, shall be paid to the owner of the vehicle or if not claimed by the owner of the vehicle within twelve months shall be forfeited to the Government. [72]