In a major breakthrough, police have unearth that Seraikela district transport office (DTO) racketeer Anwar Khan in whose office premises the police had carried out a raid on June 15, has his roots of corrupt practices at the district transport office in Jamshedpur too.
Anwar’s link to Jamshedpur district transport office was unearth while the Seraikela police scanned the documents and papers seized from Anwar’s office premises at Dhatkidih in Bistupur on June 15.
Additional SP, Seraikela, KV Raman said from the seized papers they have found several such papers which belonged to the DTO, Jamshedpur.
“The papers seized are revealing. From these papers we found that the vehicle broker Anwar would also run similar office at Dhatkidih for DTO, Jamshedpur beside that of DTO, Seraikela. We have the documents like unprocessed driving licenses and certificates of vehicle registration which should ideally be in the office of DTO, Jamshedpur,” said Raman.
The additional SP, Seraikela said that the racketeer Anwar is still on run and once he is arrested they would probe him as to in which capacity he was possessing the Government papers at his office in Dhtatidih and how is he linked both to the DTO, Jamshedpur and DTO, Seraikela.
DTO, Jamshedpur, Sanjay Kujur said that he has also came to know that the police to have established that several of the documents that the Seraikela police had seized during a raid at a vehicle broker's house has link with district transport office, Jamshedpur.
“I cannot say much on it the matter is under investigation of the Seraikela police, but we will also want to know exactly how could the official papers which were to be processed or kept in our office find their place in the broker’s office,” Kujur said.
It may be recalled that Seraikela-Kharsawan police had on June 15 conducted a raid at Anwar’s office in Dhatkidih after a complaint was filed by local transporter Kanhaiya Singh who had alleged Anwar to have demanded Rs2 lakh by personifying himself to be a staff of DTO, Seraikela.