- As per the Supreme Court Judgement, if you sold your vehicle and failed to transfer the ownership through legal way, then you will remain the owner of the vehicle, and further you will be responsible for any untoward incident and accident by the buyer.
- As per the Indian Motor Vehicle, the transferor (seller) has to inform the Regional Transport Offices (RTO) within 14 days of the transfer of ownership.
- Further , this Act also instructs the transferee (buyer) to inform the RTO about the change in vehicle ownership and produce all the required documents within 30 days of the transfer.
- You should first lodged your complaint with the police station after narrating all the facts and submit all the documents you have in your support.
- Further, also inform the RTO in written, after enclosing the said police complaint receiving copy , and thereby request the official to change the ownership.
- The last option is Consumer Court. However before filing a complaint before the Consumer court , you can send a legal notice to the OLX and thereby ask for doing the transfer formalities within a week.