Police have arrested a total of 121 persons on the charge of cheating innocent people of the promise of providing various services related to RTO office at different places in the State since the new Motor Vehicle Act came into force on September 1, 2019.
Transport Minister Padmanabha Behera informed this in the State Assembly in response to a question of Congress member Tara Prasad Bahinipati on Thursday.
According to the information, the highest number of 29 persons were arrested atRourkela RTO followed by 10 at Chandikhol, eight each at Keonjhar and Rayagada, seven at Bhanjanagarand Mayurbhanj and five each at Angul, Baleswar, Bhubaneswar I, Balangir and Malkangiri. There were no such arrests at Bargarh, Bhubaneswar II, Boudh, Cuttack, Deogarh, Ganjam, Jagatsinghpur, Nabarangpur and Sundargarh.