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RTI Application for Ownership of Vehicle
Drafting notes. This is a sample application. Customise each item before filing. See Guide for applicants for procedure, fee, and appeal path. After 14 November 2025, requests seeking information about a named individual engage Section 8(1)(j) as amended by Section 44(3) of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023. See the practitioner note for the test the Public Information Officer must apply.
In most states, there is a prescribed procedure for obtaining Registration Particulars of motor vehicles from the office of Regional Transport Officer where the vehicle is registered, by making an application in prescribed Application Format and remitting prescribed fee. This procedure is simple and faster to get registration particulars of the vehicle in question in a day or two, which shall contain name and address of registered owner of the vehicle.
It is also possible to obtain Registration Particulars of vehicle by filing RTI Application with the Public Information Officer in office of concerned Regional Transport Office, where the vehicle is registered and seek:
To
The Public Information Officer
Regional Transport Office
……………(Full address)
PIN Code………….
Sub: Request for information under Section-6(1) of RTI Act.
Sir,
Please supply me the following information in respect of Motor Vehicle mentioned below:
Details of Motor Vehicle
Vehicle Registration No. …………………
Particulars of information required
[1] Please supply me the certified copy of the Registration Particulars / Details of Vehicle Registration No. ……………….
I am attaching Application Fee Rs.10/- by way of ……………………
Please send the information to my below address by Registered post.
Yours faithfully,
Signature
Name ………………
Address ……………
Pin Code ………
Date:
[ **Check the Application Format (if any) and mode of payment of Application Fee from the Centre-State RTI Rules applicable to the public authority ]
When the name and address of vehicle owner is required in connection with serious accident involving the said vehicle, the information can be sought and is required to be supplied under Life or Liberty clause within 48 hours.
Kindly refer CIC decision in this link: Vehicle Owner Details under Life or Liberty clause
Related
- Guide for applicants. The procedure, fee, and appeal path.
- Template: first RTI application. A general-purpose first-application format.
- Template: first appeal. For drafting an appeal under Section 19(1).
- PIO reply after DPDP Rules, 2025. On how a Public Information Officer is to reply when personal information is involved.
- All sample RTI applications. The full index.
Sources
- The Right to Information Act, 2005, Sections 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, and 19.
- The Right to Information (Regulation of Fee and Cost) Rules, 2005, Central Government.
- The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, Section 44(3).
Last reviewed on
19 April 2026
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