KATHMANDU, SEP 05 -
Police on Sunday afternoon arrested four persons, including two government employees, alleging their involvement in distributing fake driving licences from the Department of Transport Management (DoTM).

Acting on a tip-off, a team deployed by the Metropolitan Police Crime Division held Section Officer Laxman Prasad Shrestha and Non-Gazetted official Sambhu Prasad Acharya of the DoTM—where the licences are being issued—and middlemen Barka Thapa and Manu Thapa.

Following the arrest of the middlemen with forged driving licences, police nabbed the two officials of the sole authority to issue licences to those passing the driving test.

Senior Superintendent of Police Rana Bahadur Chand suspects the two government staffers could be working in collusion with the fake driving licence racket in the Capital. He said the officials’ arrest followed the seizure of two licences issued under the names of Padam Bahadur Poudyal Chhetri and Kishor Kumar Shrestha, who had procured the licences without following the due procedure. It was discovered that the fake licences were registered with the DoTM with valid signature and stamp. SP Chand said the racket involving government officials provided heavy vehicle driving licence for Rs. 20,000. The government officials, pleading innocence, said their signature and the stamps were forged.

Police are said to have stepped up surveillance with the increase in road accidents involving drivers possessing fake licences.

Posted on: 2010-09-06 07:36

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