Ferraris, Porsches among impounded cars; 41 owners booked for illegal rally

The police impounded vehicles which included Ferraris, Porsches, Lamborghinis, Merc-edes cars, Audis, Jaguars and BMWs.

According to police sources, the rally, which was open to the public, had been organised every year on Republic Day and Independence Day for the past 10 years. The rally was organised by an event and social media company, according to the FIR.

The rally was supposed to be flagged off at 6 am from Jio World Drive Mall, BKC, and at least 100 cars were expected to join, but only half of them turned up. They all gathered at Jio World Drive Mall on Friday and planned to go on the MTHL and return back to BKC.

Meanwhile, a person posted a message on X (formerly Twitter) about rules being violated by these cars. The social media team of the police alerted senior officers and the BKC police station were directed to tend to the matter and penalised the vehicle owners.

“We attended the call and asked the vehicles owners if permission was secured for such rally. They told us they have not secured any permission. Hence, we registered a case against them under relevant sections for organising rally without permission,” said Raghunath Kadam, senior inspector of BKC police station.

The 41 youths, which also included some college youngsters, were charged with sections 188 (deliberate disobedience of an order that is duly promulgated by a public servant empowered by law to do so) of the Indian Penal Code and 135, 37(1) and 37(3) of the Maharashtra Police Act.

“Every year they take permission. Why did they decide to not take permission this year and carry out the car rally? We are probing the matter and are also obtaining their details from the RTO,” said another officer.

One of the car owners said they had not even started the rally and would not have continued the plan had the police told them to drop it as no permission was secured. But they did not listen to anyone and registered an FIR.