This should have details on date of expiry of insurance, fitness certificate, tax and so on. The order has also asked the Corporations to take steps to renew any of these (if not done so far) and report the matter at a special sitting which will be held at Thiruvananthapuram on November 10.

The case was registered suo motu by the Ombudsman based on newspaper reports about one of the vehicles of the Thiruvananthapuram Corporation, which had no fitness certificate, getting involved in a motor accident.

S.A. Rahim, belonging to Aruvikkara, was knocked down by a Corporation tipper lorry, which did not possess a fitness certificate. In this case, the Corporation section officer had informed the Judicial Magistrate Court I on Wednesday that only 42 Corporation vehicles, out of 164, had fitness certificates. The heavy financial burden that the procedures incurred was cited as the reason for this negligence.

The court had directed the Thiruvananthapuram Corporation to renew the fitness certificates of its vehicles as soon as possible.