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Octroi raids on RTO Tuesday, October 16, 2001

TIMES NEWS NETWORK
AHMEDABAD: The octroi committee swooped on the Regional Transport Office (RTO) on Monday, detecting eight two-wheelers being registered without having paid octroi duty.

With the help of a person posing as a customer to the RTO for registration papers to a new vehicle, the octroi committee members of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation uncovered a network of agents who wilfully evaded octroi duty with the help of some officials of the department.

Chairman of the octroi committee, Kishansinh Tomar, told TNN, "The eight instances that we have uncovered are just pointers to the widespread illegalities in the RTO which bring down octroi income. I have ordered an investigation on to how the vehicles were brought into Ahmedabad and registered without paying octroi. If officials of the octroi department are found guilty immediate suspension orders would be slapped on them."

After laying siege on the RTO the octroi department shifted focus to a two-wheeler showroom and financier based in Bapunagar. "We were informed that the two-wheeler outlet was evading octroi and we are trying to verify the facts. There are many more such showrooms in Bapunagar and the credentials of each will be checked by the octroi department," said Tomar.

News Source : The Times of India [India's best Newspaper]

 

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