BENGALURU, Nov 08: The teams of Lokayukta Justice B S Patil, Upa Lokayuktas Justice K N Phaneendra and Justice B Veerappa visited six Regional Transport Offices in Yeshwanthpur, Rajajinagar, Jayanagar, Yelahanka, Kasturi Nagar and K R Puram to check the alleged rampant corruption and maladministration.
When Upa Lokayukta Justice B Veerappa and a team of judicial and police officers paid a surprise visit to the RTO office in Kasturi Nagar, as many as 49 Registration Certificates and 83 Driving Licenses were found in a shop in front of the RTO’s office.
On most of those cards Rs 1,500, Rs 2,000, Rs 3,500 and Rs 5,000 were mentioned. On a few of them, “right mark” was found. Seizing all of them, the Upa Lokayukta said this is a serious offence and the RTO officials have failed to give a proper explanation.
He directed the Deputy Superintendent of Police of Lokayukta to register a criminal case against RTO, ARTO, Superintendent and a private person.
RTO failed to provide how many vehicles are in his limits, how many of them are stage carriers, whether the mineral transport vehicles are fitted with GPS, how many vehicles violated rules in the last two years and how many of them were seized. But he informed that the fitness certificates of 37 vehicles out of a total of 702 school vehicles have expired, but he failed to produce the copies of the notices issued to those vehicles.
The Upa Lokayukta directed them to produce the comparative statements of their annual salary, bank transactions and liabilities.
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