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`Irregularities' alleged in Transport Department

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Plea to Lt. Governor seeking CBI probe

Puducherry: A delegation of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (Puducherry State unit), led by its secretary A. Anbalagan MLA, handed over a petition to Lt. Governor Mukut Mithi at Raj Nivas on Friday seeking his intervention for a probe by the Central Bureau Investigation into the "scandalous practices" prevailing in the Transport Department and alleging preparation and distribution of "fake RC books".

The delegation included legislators Ohm Sakthi Segar and M. V. Omalingam, and office bearers of the executive committee of the party.

Mr. Anbalagan, distributing copies of the petition to mediapersons later, said that he had also submitted to Mr. Mithi the copies of the letters he had written to Director of the CBI in New Delhi and the Deputy Director, CBI in Chennai seeking a probe by the investigation agency.

He said that the local police had already received a complaint from a resident of Rainbow Nagar recently stating that a number of stolen vehicles were issued fake registration numbers by the department. A FIR had also been registered on the basis of the complaint.

Local police arrested some persons including a mechanic, a middleman and a person from Kerala during investigation. However, before registration or re-registration of vehicles is done, the Transport Department should, as per statutory procedure, obtain the clearance from the Crime Record Bureau of Police department and this Bureau should contact the National Crime Record Bureau for ascertaining the vehicles' particulars if they were second hand ones.

Further, as persons from more than one State were involved in the transaction, a probe by the CBI was necessary.

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