Bengaluru: The police wing of the Karnataka Lokayukta on Friday September 30 raided nine Regional Transport Office (RTO) checkposts controlled by the state’s Transport Department.
The Police recovered lakhs of unaccounted money, including Rs. 14,000 that was allegedly thrown out a window by Senior Motor Vehicle Inspector Lakshmi at the Attibele checkpost in Bengaluru Rural District after she saw the officials. Rs. 62,227 were seized from one checkpost alone.
Under the direction of ADGP Prashanth Kumar Thakur, the Lokayukta police started a search operation at 4.30 am on Friday in line with the search warrants issued in accordance with Section 10 of the Karnataka Lokayukta Act.
A Lokayukta statement claims that the search followed a police report into rampant irregularities at checkposts. Suo-motu proceedings were started by Lokayukta Justice B. S. Patil after he found large scale irregularities at a checkpost in the Vijayapura District.
