Vigilance officials perform a surprising control in the RTO subparagraph in Kerala | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
The Office for the Ages and the Anti -Corruption Office (VACB) on Sunday (July 20, 2025) claimed that in the Kerala State Motor Vehicle (MVD) department revealed the “extended and rooted corruption”.
On Saturday, VACB officials, who operate on news, hid for several weeks, have overthrew at 81 MVD offices throughout the state, as part of the centrally coordinated current operating code named “Clean Wheels”.
Surprising insights focused on 17 RTO and 64 sub -regional transport agencies (SRTOS). Investigators stated that officials of administrative and coercive officials in RTOS mined from the rocket.
“Perfunctory” of the exams
The best officials said Hindu that the network of “dishonest” MVD officials attached to the regional transport authorities (RTOS) invented a number of illegal methods allowing vehicles looking for fitness certificates and driving licenses to carry out insights by performing “Perfunctory”. Pedestrians, including road users, including motorists and pedestrians and reins, including motorists and courses.
Officials stated that the overworking of aging vehicles, issuing fitness certificates, truck and buses permit and carrying out driving tests for permanent driving licenses are among the central trips of corruption in MVD.
Official-Agent Nexus
They said that surprising raids revealed that officials cooperated with agents who collected a bribe from service seekers, which they then secretly handed over to the vehicle inspectors on weekends after a considerable cut.
The agency said a significant part of the bribes gathered from the public was handed over to officials agents as a transaction of UPI. VACB investigators said that several UPI transactions were preliminated that several MVD officials revealed that they were unlawfully received a total of 7,84,598 GBP. “The amount is only the tip of the iceberg,” said the higher official.
“The common practice in RTOS is to refuse online applications for registration of new vehicles, transfer ownership of existing and issuing permits for commercial vehicles, quoting minor errors, forcing the applicant to approach public service agents,” he added.
VACB found that the “testified” agents were quickly cleaned without following any priority order. “The score of independent applications, including a license recovery, a pupil’s license, an international license and an objection to the international transfer of the vehicle, gathered dust in the RTO offices waiting to be released because they were not observed by any mediator,” the investigator said.
RTOS caught a guard
On Saturday afternoon, VACB timed the RTO raid for the weekend. Surprising inspections seemed to have caught RTO officials and their agents out of sight. In Nilambur, SRTO agents found 49 300 GBP officials “hastily thrown outside the window”.
Vacb confiscated 1.40 760 GBP from agents throughout the state. Many of them were caught by huge amounts of money in the RTO offices, ”said the clerk. The agency detained at least 11 suspects for interrogation. The CEO of the police, Vacb, Manoj Abraham, supervised the anti -corruption drive.
Published – 20 July 2025 14:15
