Acting on the instances of some unauthorised persons selling the forms meant for applying for vehicular licenses at ARTO office in Haridwar, the District Magistrate Deepak Rawat has confiscated such forms and ordered the officer-in-charge to file a case against the agent who was found selling such forms from the counters sans any authorisation during the DM’s inspection.
Notably, upon receiving a complaint from one Anil Kumar from BHEl who was allegedly denied a form he sought to have a license for his two-wheeler done, DM made an unannounced inspection of the ARTO office in Bhupatwala in Haridwar and found many irregularities going on.
DM said while talking to this correspondent that he acted after he had received a complaint who is employed in BHEl that the clerk had refused to give him the form for making license, citing the exhausted stock. “As per the complaint, the clerk asked him to buy the from an outside corner. Given the seriousness of the complaint, I decided to inspect myself to see how things were. On reaching there, I observed when Manjeet, said to be the driver of the clerk, sitting at the counter and giving forms. I immediately directed the ARTO to lodge FIR against the person found selling the forms,” he said.
The DM also directed the officer to ensure that the forms are sold only by the Government employees and there is no scarcity of such forms.