UP STF has arrested three people who cheated crores of rupees through software.
UP STF has exposed the scam in tax collection at NHAI toll plaza. STF team raided Ataraila Toll Plaza in Mirzapur at 3.50 am on Wednesday and arrested 3 people.
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The accused had installed their software in the NHAI computer installed at the toll plaza. Through this, the vehicles passing through the toll plaza without Fastag were shown as free and the money collected from them was being taken into personal account.
This scam was running on 200 tolls of 12 states including UP-Rajasthan.
At Atraila toll plaza alone, fraud of about Rs 45 thousand was being done every day for 2 years. There has been fraud of Rs 3 crore 28 lakh in two years. STF has recovered 2 laptops, 1 printer, 5 mobiles, 1 car and Rs 19000 from the accused.
Ataraila Toll Plaza located on Mirzapur-Lucknow Road. It was from here that STF caught the three accused.
Installed its software in NHAI computers in 12 states STF has arrested Alok Kumar Singh of Jaunpur, Rajeev Kumar Mishra of Prayagraj and Manish Mishra of Majhauli, Madhya Pradesh. Alok was currently living in Varanasi.
The accused told that till now they have installed the software made by them in the computers of NHAI in 42 toll plazas of 12 states of the country. These states are Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Assam, Jammu and Kashmir, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Himachal Pradesh, Odisha and West Bengal.
Complaints of fraud were being received continuously STF Inspector Deepak Singh said- Complaints of irregularities were being received at various toll plazas of NHAI. The team of Varanasi STF’s ASP Vinod Singh and Lucknow’s ASP Vimal Singh were continuously monitoring the case. Meanwhile, STF received information that Alok Singh, the person who creates and installs separate software for NHAI, is in Varanasi. STF team caught Alok Singh near Babatpur Airport.
This is Alok Singh, who was caught by the STF team near Babatpur Airport in Varanasi.
The accused used to work at the toll plaza During STF interrogation, Alok told that he is MCA pass and earlier used to work at toll plaza. From there he came in contact with the companies taking the contract for the toll plaza. After this, a software was created with the connivance of toll plaza owners. Installed my own software in the NHAI computer installed at the toll plaza, which I accessed from my laptop. IT personnel of toll plaza also supported in this.
He himself has been involved in this rigging for the last two years in Azamgarh, Prayagraj, Baghpat, Bareilly, Shamli, Mirzapur and Gorakhpur of UP.
This is how tax is collected at toll plaza
Tax is collected in two ways at NHAI toll plazas across the country.
1, From Fastag: Vehicles fitted with Fastag are caught by the sensor installed at the toll and money is deducted from the account.
2. cash counter: There is a separate counter at the toll plaza for vehicles which do not have Fastag or which have any kind of exemption. There the tax money is collected in cash. A slip is given for this.
They were rigging like this The accused used to rig the recovery from the cash counter only. Tax was collected from vehicles without Fastag from the toll plaza using software made by the accused. His printed slip was similar to the slip obtained from NHAI software. In this way, the vehicle recovered illegally was shown as tax exempted and allowed to pass.
On an average, 5% of the toll tax collected from vehicles without Fastag is collected from the genuine software of NHAI, so that no one has any doubt.
That means the tax collected from vehicles without Fastag is not going into the government account. Whereas as per rules, 50% of the toll tax collected from vehicles without Fastag has to be deposited in the account of NHAI.
File photo of Manish Mishra.
File photo of Rajiv Kumar Mishra.
used to divide money among themselves Alok Singh said that the scam money was distributed among toll plaza owners, IT personnel and other employees. Under the supervision of two other accused Sawant and Sukhantu, such software has been installed at more than 200 toll plazas in the country. Crores of rupees are being embezzled from them every day.
Dainik Bhaskar While talking to STF’s Additional SP Vinod Kumar Singh says that the nexus of this gang is spread across all the toll plazas of the country. A detailed report is being prepared. This will be shared with NHAI. An STF team is being formed to investigate the remaining toll plazas.
Names of those districts where rigging is taking place
Fastag is an electronic toll collection system Fastag is an electronic toll collection system. Fastag works on Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) technology. Every Fastag is linked to the registration details of the vehicle. Before the advent of Fastag, one had to stop at the toll plaza and pay the toll fee in cash.
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