Multi-crore scam case witness thrashed by unknown people

A Delhi government official, who is a witness in a multi-crore scam of transport department, was beaten up by some unknown people near his home with the victim claiming that those related to the case could be behind the attack.
Anil Chikkara, a Licencing Officer with Delhi's Transport Department, was beaten up by the men near his home in Jyoti Nagar this morning and a case has been registered at Jyoti Nagar police station, a senior police official said.
Chikkara is a witness in a case of siphoning off crores of rupees in fitness tests of commercial vehicles in the national capital.

A case was registered in the scam on a complaint of RTI activist Vivek Garg alleging the contract for lane test of commercial vehicles for fitness certificates was given by the Delhi government to ESP India without inviting any tender.
Chikkara told PTI, "I suspect that people involved in the scam could be involved in the attack. I have told this to police. Yesterday also a woman had come to my office for issuance of a driving licence but she had some other intention and tried to trap me. There could be a link in both the cases. I have complained to police about yesterday's incident also."

In the assault incident, police have registered case under sections 323 (causing hurt), 341 (wrongful restraint), 186 (obstructing a government official from performing duty), 354 (criminal assault on a government official with an intent to deter him from duty) and 34 (common intention), besides other provisions of Indian Penal Code.

The Anti-Corruption Bureau of Delhi government had accused two businessmen of "grabbing the work of fitness test of commercial vehicles from government by misleading the cabinet with the connivance of officials of the transport department and siphoning off crores of rupees".
A former Deputy Commissioner of Transport Department was also arrested.

The ACB had submitted that the duo had been charging fee for several tests of which only few tests were actually conducted. Besides the I&C test, the accused had promised to carry out CNG leakage and loaded lode test for Rs 1,600 per vehicle but the same were never carried out.
ACB also told a court that the transport department gave "undue favour" to the company in work of laying eight additional test lanes "as till today two additional test lanes could have been made functional while advance payment for eight lanes has already been disbursed".