Deputy Commissioner Bokaro M K Baranwal has cancelled licences of four e-stamp vendors in Bokaro.
They were allegedly involved in black racketeering of stamp papers and were arrested on 7 March during the raid conducted by SDO Chas.
The stamp vendors whose licences have been cancelled are Santosh Ganguly, Hare Krishna Mahato, Akashya Kumar Singh and Ambuj Sarkar, district administration official informed.
“Their licences were cancelled due to their unsatisfactory reply against explanation was asked by the Deputy Commissioner for black marketing of e-stamp,” added the official.
After getting numbers of complaint a raid was conducted by Satish Chandra SDO Chas in the month of March; at least 13 people including stamp vendors and deed writers were arrested. During investigation four of them were asked to submitted explanatory reports. DC found their reply unsatisfactory, he said.
Aiming to facilitate mass and to make the availability of all denominations of stamp papers license has been issued to six e-stamp centres in the city on the directive of Baranwal.
The e-stamps are now available at Stock Holding Corporation at City centre sector 4, Bank of Baroda Chas branch, Bank of Baroda Sector 4 branch, Canara Bank Chas, Canara Bank Naya More and BS City Head Post Office; People can get the lowest value of Rs 1 to any high-value stamp papers at all centres, said Barnawal.
“One can make payment through their debit card, ATM card, cheques and net banking.
We are the move to make the stamp papers procuring process easy for the people,” added DC.