Fast-Tag of Modern Era
As we all know, India is a growing country and working to become a developed country. Remember the days when while crossing the toll you have to be part of a long queue because unless the person sitting at the counter was not issued the slip wouldn’t be able to pass the toll gate? But nowadays this is replaced by the Fas tag. Daily millions of Cars pass through the highways. They also have to pay toll tax for this.
In the modern era, people have installed fast-tag to pay the toll tax. By using the fast tag people have eliminated standing in line. Nowadays people are not carrying cash because money is deducted directly from their accounts through Fastag.
News is coming from the utter Pradesh, The STF team of utter Pradesh raided Atraila NHAI toll plaza and exposed a nationwide toll collection scam. On Wednesday they arrested a 35-year-old engineer. He is the mastermind of this toll scam.
According to the information, this scam operated at 42 toll plazas in 14 states. Through this software, he collected toll taxes for the last two years. As of now police are investigating more on this There was a loss of 45000 daily due to this scam at the Atralia toll plaza in Mirjapur.
Software Scam
Alok Kumar Singh, an ex-employee of the toll plaza, created an illegal software through which whatever toll was deducted, the money was directly sent to the personal bank account of the gang members. They were using this software on the vehicles without fasting or on the vehicles with low balance. Which were charged with double toll amounts.
He made the software in such a way that this software was working alongside the original software. Even Though Fake receipts were also generated through this software under the name of NHAI which was almost difficult to identify.
Confession
Alok Singh had admitted that he installed this software on 42 different plazas. Out of which 9 toll plazas are in UP, 6 in MP, 4 in Rajasthan, Gujarat, and Chattisgarh, 3 in Maharashtra and Jharkhand, 2 in Punjab, Assam, and Bengal.
Still STF team and Police are interrogating him and let us see how many layers will be open on this scam. Currently, Alok singh is under the custody of the Police and they are trying to identify the names of other gang members.