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Patna. Despite the ban of the Supreme Court, the transport offices in many districts of Bihar have registered a large number of BS-IV vehicles. In the investigation of only five districts, the case of registration of 3609 BS-4 vehicles contrary to the rules has come to light. The Supreme Court is serious after the matter came to the fore. On the orders of State Transport Commissioner Seema Tripathi, the department has constituted a high-level team to investigate this. The team under the leadership of OSD Aruna Kumari of Transport Department has also started its investigation.
The investigation team reached the Bhojpur DTO office on March 27 and searched the records. Maximum 845 vehicles have been registered here. This number is 454 in Patna district, 642 in Nalanda and 763 in Muzaffarpur. Apart from these, there is another district, where BS-4 vehicles were registered even after the date was over. In this way, a total of 3609 vehicles have been registered in these five districts. However, the investigating officers are still refusing to reveal anything.
More than four thousand vehicles running without registration in Gopalganj
Some dealers here sold more than six thousand BS-4 vehicles till June-July of 2020. When the customers did not get the registration number, they started a ruckus. The vehicles of some of these people were registered from Arunachal Pradesh after one year. Even after this, more than four thousand bikes are running on the roads of the district without registration. Gopalganj’s DM Dr. Naval Kishore Chowdhary told that even after the registration of BS-4 vehicles was stopped, they were sold. Later, how 16 hundred more vehicles were registered in Arunachal Pradesh, it is being investigated. Action is decided against those who will be found guilty in the investigation.
Three member team will submit report next month
Regarding the investigation of this forgery, the Transport Department has formed a three-member investigation team under the chairmanship of OSD Sudhir Kumar, Archana Kumari and Aruna Kumari. This team will submit the report of fraud worth crores to the department by next month. According to sources, investigation is going on in Patna, Jamui, Bhojpur and Muzaffarpur.
Forgery in big cities, registration of about 600 vehicles in Patna
About 600 BS-4 vehicles were wrongly registered in Patna. Apart from this, forgery has also taken place in those big cities, where vehicles are registered on a large scale every month. According to the sources, in 2017-18, the Transport Department used to get the registration done through the dealer point as well. Whatever numbers were left at that time, those remaining numbers were registered for some BS-4 vehicles and some for BS-3 vehicles as well. The department did not get any fee for registration, due to which there was a loss of revenue of more than 3.60 crores.
This is the case, this is how it was revealed
The Supreme Court had banned the sale of BS-4 vehicles after the midnight of March 31, 2020. Even after the ban, such remaining vehicles were sold and they were given the registration number of old vehicles. After a year, when the owners of the old vehicles went for pollution test and insurance, they came to know that their vehicles were not registered. In this matter, on September 19, 2020, the Transport Department formed a four-member team under the leadership of Deputy Secretary Shailendra Nath. In its report, the investigation team considered six personnel including the then DTO Ajay Kumar and ADTO Vikas Kumar guilty, but in this case the Transport Department ordered to register a case against the remaining six personnel except DTO and ADTO. Later a PIL was also filed in this matter.
Registration was done in backlock
According to the sources of the Transport Department, all the registration was done by going to the back lock. It is said that registration in backlog cannot be done without the involvement of the officers.
Investigation is being done at the level of State Transport Commissioner
Transport Department Secretary Pankaj Kumar Pal told that this matter is being looked into from the level of State Transport Commissioner. Something can be said only after investigation.
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