New Delhi, July 30 (The Indian Express): To avoid detection by Delhi Police, who have begun taking action against diesel vehicles older than 10 years following the National Green Tribunal’s (NGT’s) order, Delhi-based transporters have adopted a unique modus operandi. The NGT recently banned all diesel vehicles (passenger as well as commercial) older than 10 years. It directed the regional transport office in the city to de-register all such diesel vehicles with immediate effect, and ordered police to start taking action against them. Following a tip-off that transporters were taking their vehicles to Nagaland to change the engine chassis number and fraudulently register their vehicles with the state authority, police arrested a truck driver from outer Delhi’s Samaypur Badli area Tuesday. Sources told The Indian Express that the arrested truck driver has been identified as Sanjay Kumar, a transporter of Sanjay Gandhi Transport Nagar. “The arrest was made by a team of the Inter-State-Cell of Delhi Police’s crime branch. The team received information that some transporters were fraudulently registering their vehicles with new numbers in northeastern states,” said sources. On Tuesday, investigators came to know that a truck with a fake registration number was parked at Sanjay Gandhi Transport Nagar. They immediately conducted a raid.
