After finding out that the Toyota Landcruiser didn’t belong to Salman, the police are veering round to the belief that the owner as named in the car’s documents simply doesn’t exist. Raising more question marks over the actor’s links.A high-level inquiry by Joint Commissioner of Police (Law and Order), Ahmed Javed, found that the car’s papers name a certain Abdul Rahim; but the investigating team has found no such person at the two addresses, one in Mumbai, the other at Kasargod in Kerala. Besides, the registration documents (RC book) of the vehicle appear not to be authentic, suggesting that it was bought or traded in an underhand manner.This, police sources revealed, could open a new set of cases against Khan — including under Section 177 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 — which relates to possessing a vehicle without its ownership papers.Efforts are now underway to trace Rahim, if such a person exists, or to get Khan to reveal the true story of how he came to acquire the Landcruiser. Police teams which searched for Rahim’s Mahim address, cited as Noor Manzil, found that neither did such a person exist nor did the place.Preliminary inquiries with the Kasargod police — Kasargod is cited as Rahim’s address as in his passport — too drew a blank.Against this backdrop, the police now believe that Khan was hoodwinking them throughout, about the purchase and true ownership of the Landcruiser.Javed’s report also reveals that none of the three Regional Transport Offices (RTOs) in Mumbai had issued a driver’s licence to Khan. The investigating team now wants to grill Khan about the car as well as his licence.
