NGT has rejected a man’s plea to be able to run his Rolls Royce on Delhi roads. Here's why

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A Rolls Royce car owner has been denied permission from the National Green Tribunal to renew the registration of his petrol-driven model that he had bought in 1996.
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A bench headed by Justice Jawad Rahim has said that the NGT order has banned plying of petrol vehicles that are over 15-years-old can be considered final now that an appeal against it was rejected by the Supreme Court.

"Besides the above, ministry of heavy industries and public enterprises has filed an application seeking modification of our orders dated April 7, 2015 and July 20, 2016 which has been heard and reserved for judgment by a bench headed by the NGT chairperson," the bench said.

It was last year that NGT had given a special permission to vintage car owners that they could partake in a vintage car rally that takes place in the capital, considering the boost in tourism that would happen because of the rally.

However, the rally was cited as an 'exception' by NGT.

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The car owner, Ashok Kumar Jain, in his plea said that he had bought the car in 1995 and was imported in 1996 after he paid 112,350 pounds (nearly 1 crore at that time) along with customs duty. In his plea, he said that the registration required a renewal so that the car could be sent to its UK manufacturer and be made compliant with Euro IV norms.

However, due to the tribunal's order, the registration could not be renewed, even though he has obtained all the requisite pollution certificates.

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