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The Karnataka Transport Department has suspended a elder authoritative posted astatine the Koramangala Regional Transport Office (RTO) aft it was recovered that fittingness certificates (FCs) were issued to 41 dense centrifugal vehicles registered successful Gujarat without immoderate carnal inspection.
Based connected the directions of Minister for Transport Ramalinga Reddy, Nisar Ahmed, Senior Motor Vehicle Inspector, was placed nether suspension for dereliction of work aft allegedly approving FCs successful usurpation of statutory rules. The suspension bid was issued by the Commissioner of the Karnataka Transport Department connected January 20.
According to officials, the irregularity came to airy aft the e-Detection squad of the Gujarat State Transport Department analysed information disposable connected the conveyance e-Detection portal. The scrutiny revealed that 41 dense vehicles registered successful Gujarat had been shown arsenic inspected astatine RTO offices successful Karnataka and were issued Form-38(A), the mandatory Fitness Certificate for transport vehicles. “However, records showed that these precise vehicles had passed done toll plazas located successful Gujarat connected the aforesaid time the inspections were purportedly carried retired successful Karnataka,” an authoritative said.
The Deputy Director successful the Office of the Transport Commissioner, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, alerted Karnataka authorities and informed them that the approvals for the Fitness Certificates had been authorised by Mr. Ahmed.
Transport Minister Mr. Reddy ordered a probe.
“The report, based connected information from the Vahan 4.0 bundle platform, confirmed that Mr. Ahmed had renewed the fittingness certificates of the 41 vehicles. It besides conclusively established that the vehicles were physically contiguous successful Gujarat connected the aforesaid day, making immoderate inspection successful Karnataka impossible,” the authoritative added.
The officials stated that the approvals were granted without mandatory carnal inspection, amounting to a wide usurpation of the provisions of the Motor Vehicles Act and associated rules.
