AP Officials Order Seizure Of JC Travels Buses

Officials of the transport department of Andhra Pradesh have issued orders for the seizure of 154 buses belonging to JC Travels, owned by the JC brothers of the state.

Revealing the details of the seizure, Joint Commissioner of the department Prasad Rao said that the company had registered 154 BS-3 buses in an illegal manner.

He said that the company had registered 50 buses in the name of Jatadhara Industries and 104 buses in the name of a C Gopal Reddy.

He also said that 33 buses of the travels were registered in Karnataka, 15 in Telangana and 101 in AP.

Rao said that the state had already registered 27 FIRs in Anantapur district and 3 in Kurnool district.

He added that the department had cancelled the registration of 80 buses in Anantapur district, 5 each in Kurnool and Chittoor districts, and 3 in Kadapa district.

He said that the department had postponed the cancellation of the registration of the vehicles in Nellore district due to pending court cases.

62 buses had been seized so far, and another 39 vehicles were yet to be seized, he said.

He also said that the state government had written letters to the union government to blacklist all the buses in the online database, and to issue orders to all the states to seize the vehicles wherever they were found operating across the country.

He further said that the state had asked insurance companies to update the details of the buses in their national databases.