Suspended 227 drivers for having fake licence: DTC tells HC

The Delhi High Court was today informed by DTC that it has suspended its 227 drivers - 133 regular and 94 contractual - till date since their recruitment in 2007 for having fake driving licences.
The Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) also submitted that it has issued show cause notice to 12 regular and nine contractual drivers who have been laid off duty till it is verified that their driving licences are genuine or not.
A bench of justices Badar Durrez Ahmed and Siddharth Mridul, however, observed that lives of hundreds of passengers was in the hands of these drivers who were driving DTC buses since 2007 with fake licences.

"There is absolutely no rule of law in the city," the court observed.
It directed DTC to file a detailed affidavit indicating as to how many drivers it has employed after 2007 and how many of them - both regular and contractual - have verified driving licences and are medically fit to drive a bus.
The bench made it clear that if it does not get a proper answer it will have to ask the Chairperson of DTC to come and explain and listed the matter for next hearing on October 15.
The court was hearing two pleas filed by NGOs, Azaad Dasta Sankalp Humara and Nav Jagrity Manch, through advocates Vishnu Sharma and Deepak Anand respectively, contending that a majority of DTC drivers, recruited post 2007, are either medically unfit to drive or do not have verified driving licences.