Fake Driving Licence Racket Busted In Gujarat’s Kutch, One Nabbed

Kutch: A person who allegedly supplied bogus licence to various truck drivers has been arrested in Gujarat ’s Kutch, police said on Sunday.

The accused has been identified as Jitendra alias Pintu Chaudhary. 

According to police, a racket was ongoing regarding bogus licenses being supplied at a cement company. 

“Acting on a tip-off, the SOG team on Feb 26 called several truck drivers to the Vayor police station checkpost for verification of their licenses. Their licenses had discrepancies when matched in the RTO records. The main accused has been arrested,” police said. 

Bogus Licences Supplied To Truck Drivers 

Police said that cross-verification through the e-transport portal and RTO records revealed discrepancies in 14 licenses.

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During the interrogation, the license holders admitted that they had neither taken any RTO tests nor completed any application forms, cops said.  

Truck drivers had acquired their licenses through intermediaries who connected them with Pintu, the owner of a photocopy and color printing shop in Songadh, they added. 

A case has been registered, and further investigation is underway. 

Meanwhile, in a major crackdown on gold smuggling, customs officials at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport seized gold coins worth over Rs 7.54 crore from two Indian nationals who arrived from Milan Malpensa. 

The accused were caught with 10,092 grams of gold coins concealed in a white cloth belt tied around their waist, wrapped in transparent plastic sheets.

A senior Customs official stated that acting on a specific tip-off, Customs officers intercepted the passengers and examined their personal belongings and baggage, leading to the recovery of the smuggled gold. The passengers admitted that the gold coins were intended to be smuggled into India.