The Regional Transport Officer (RTO), Bhubaneswar has filed a police complaint against Ola, Uber and Rapido companies over illegal operation in and around the city without obtaining any aggregator licence.

In the complaint lodged with the Saheed Nagar police, the RTO has mentioned that only the two-wheeler vehicles registered as transport can be used by aggregator agencies.

“But these aggregator agencies are deliberately using non-transport two-wheelers without any licence. Such illegal use of non-transport two-wheelers were reported several times, and these companies were instructed to strictly adhere to the guidelines issued by the State Government. Even written instructions were also issued to Sandip Kumar Choudhury (Ola), Deepak Palai (Uber), Lalajee Choudhury (Rapido) to strictly follow the guidelines,” the official wrote in the complaint.

“Due to such illegal operation by these companies, the local auto association and other commercial vehicle associations are strongly objecting to this violation and had protested against these illegal activities by these companies,” the RTO said.

“Very often, law & order situations are being created due to such illegal activities. Even Transport Commissioner, Odisha, had also called them twice and instructed them to follow the guidelines. But in spite of all instructions, these persons deliberately indulged themselves in such illegal activities, for which the local auto association has informed to go for strike on September 27,” the officer said.

“It is requested that stringent criminal action may be initiated against the aforementioned persons for creating frequent law & order situations for deliberate violation of MV law,” he urged.