Despite the ban on brokers in RTO offices, five middlemen were arrested by the Uditnagar police from the Rourkela Regional Transport Office on Saturday.
They were identified as Aswini Kumar Mohanty, Sanjay Kumar Sahu, Bholanath Nayak, Padma Charan Padhi and Bibhuti Bhusan Acharya. Police recovered a Maruti car, a motorcycle, a scooty, a printer, a laptop, six mobile phones, cash of ? 22,700 and certain RTO office-related documents from their possession.
According to DSP PK Mishra, on Saturday at about 12.30 pm, police got information from a reliable source that some brokers were indulging in criminal activity in the RTO campus and its periphery in a clandestine manner impersonating themselves as RTO staffs. A raid was conducted by the special squad of the Uditnagar PS and the accused were arrested. Previously, as many as 28 RTO brokers had been arrested by the city police, added Mishra.