Sensing some irregularities in the office of Regional Transport Office, Nagpur rural, State Transport Department has sent a team of officials here to investigate the matter. The team is accompanying another group of Mumbai Police (Crime Branch). Though the officials are tight-lipped over the development, the sources revealed that the nexus between RTO officers and agents in Rural office has come to fore. Highly placed sources told ‘The Hitavada’, “Nagpur rural RTO wing is literally running at the behest of agents. The officers are always surrounded by agents. The computers in the chamber of officers are being handled by the agents.” The latest irregularity that was noticed by Mumbai Crime Branch is of writing chassis number of the stolen or assembled trucks. The modus operendi is, the trucks are stolen, dismantled and assembled by the miscreants.

 

The abandoned vehicles are found and their chassis numbers are given to the stolen or assembled trucks. On the basis of chassis number, the truck is registered in RTO office. These stolen trucks mostly come from Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya etc. These trucks, with new chassis number and fake documents, are then sold. Common man doesn’t know the truth. But Mumbai Police caught some trucks and checked their authenticity. They were shocked to see that the chassis number was not matching with the vehicle number. Then the team conducted further search operations and found that these trucks were transferred from Nagpur rural RTO.