Hyderabad: Following a comprehensive report submitted by the vigilance wing of the transport department, in-charge commissioner and principal secretary Sunil Sharma on Monday suspended five motor vehicle inspectors for illegally registering trucks while the vehicles were either at Vijayawada or did not present themselves before the RTO.
As per rules, trucks should be registered after their body is built, but some persons in cahoots with transport officials had registered about 10 tankers and LPG cylinder transport vehicles.
After the fraud was detected, Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao directed for immediate action against the culprits.
Transport minister P. Mahender Reddy ordered a probe by Ranga Reddy District Transport officer M. Praveen Rao along with police intelligence and vigilance wings.
Based on the CCTV footage available with the RTA in Vijayawada and details of the entries of vehicles, the officials identified the role of five MVIs. Based on a report submitted by the RTA vigilance wing officials suspended the MVIs including Chandra Shekar (Hyderabad Central), Suresh Reddy (Uppal), Shakkel Ahmed (Hyderabad South), Praveen Kumar (Parigi) and Shankar (Khammam).
