1 lakh 2 thousand 7 hundred 11 licenses are suspected to be fake

At that time, he had only a two-wheeler driver's license. Basyal was immediately arrested. If a person is killed by a vehicle driven by an unlicensed person, the punishment is up to 20 years in prison. After seeing that the punishment was possible, Basyal's relatives started looking for the gang that made fake licenses. He was released on bail from the Rupandehi court by creating fake evidence that Bhattarai was killed in a bus accident on the basis of a fake license made by giving money to the gang.

After being suspected of submitting a fake license, when the matter was re-investigated, Narayan Prasad Pandey, a computer operator of Transport Management Office, Butwal, Akramuddin Muslim, a computer operator working in Dang, Lakshman Pandey, a former computer operator of Transport Management Office, Butwal, and a computer engineer of the then Transport Management Department, were involved in making fake licenses. Suraj Prakash Aryal and Harish Bhatt were found to be involved. It was found that the license of Shivpujan Mallah of Mahua-1 of Kapilvastu was forged to make a fake license in the name of Basyal.

To what extent, the Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of the police revealed that the details were filled in the name of Basyal while keeping the sailor's license number intact. One of the gang, Harish Bhatt, chief engineer of the driving license printing branch, had printed fake licenses and given them to Basyal's relatives. According to the plan of middleman Laxman Pandey, Aryal, the then computer engineer of the department, was found to have created a fake user ID named 'AII' to make a fake license. Then gave the user's password to the middleman Pandey. Pandey is a former computer operator at the Transport Office in Butwal. Pandey gave the password to Akramuiddan, the computer operator of the Transport Management Office, Dang. He changed the name and surname of the sailor. Narayan Prasad Pandey, computer operator of Transport Management Office, Butwal, did the work of changing date of birth and photo.

Pandey, a brilliant computer engineer, did it all. Basyal and his father Thaneshwar are currently absconding after the CIB started its investigation. Driver's license is printed by the department only for going to foreign employment and study and in urgent cases. On this occasion, it was confirmed that Bhatt had made a fake license and sold it to the accused in the murder case. The court has ordered Aryal, Narayan Prasad Pandey and Harish Bhatt to be released on bail after the CIB investigated the case and submitted an investigation report to the District Public Prosecutor's Office Kathmandu.

A separate case has been filed against Bhatt along with Sunar, Milan Bastola, Birjukumar Chaudhary, Vasant Pandey, Ganesh Bhandari and Deepa Neupane on Friday. It has been revealed how the defendants of both these cases made fake licenses by purchasing government seals and signatures. Among those ordered to be released on bail, including Bhatta, all those who were filed on Friday are currently under the control of the CIB.

The director general was Narayan Prasad Bhattarai when a fake license was issued by the Transport Management Department in the name of Busyal. He is currently the spokesperson of the Ministry of Home Affairs. This case does not end there. It has also been revealed that fake licenses are given to those going for foreign employment in the middleman's setting with the connivance of the transport staff.

Similarly, on December 20 last year, Bel Bahadur Devkota went to the department to make a license through an intermediary. As he has to go abroad, he asks to show the visa and print the license. In that sequence, the employee whose license was forged gets a needle. Then he reaches the office of Uddhav Rizal, director general of the department. The issue of the young man giving money to get a license through a broker reaches the Director General. After not getting the license, he asks Devkota when he gave the written and trial. Director General Rizal said, 'I didn't give the exam, I paid 70,000 in the hope of getting a license quickly, even after filling the form.' I also did the same', he replied. Later, the department handed him over to Kathmandu Valley Crime Investigation Office, New Baneshwar.

It was found that someone in the gang had given Devkota a license number issued in the name of another person. But Devkota did not know that he was in the clutches of the gang. When the cases where licenses were made by giving money to gangs started to be found one after another, during the investigation, the arrested persons revealed that fake licenses were made by the employees of the department and the subordinate transport office.

And the investigation began

What is the fake license? How was the license made by the department? An investigation committee was formed under the coordination of Mukesh Regmi, director of the department, to investigate the fake license on the basis of the above Rupandehi road accident and the Devkota incident in which the license to go abroad was in question. Branch officers of the department Arjun Adhikari, Savin Shrestha, DSP Tapan Kumar Dahal and computer engineer of the department Bodhraj Baral were members of the committee. While studying the licenses made by the committee, 12,711 licenses issued since December 072 were found suspicious. The investigation committee submitted its report with the investigation to the CIB. However, the CIB did not proceed with the investigation on other suspected licenses and suspected gangs.

Despite arresting the employees who made fake licenses, the police did not pay attention to the search of the users of the licenses issued by them. According to the report submitted by the CIB, instead of breaking the network of fake licenses, the investigation was focused only on those two licenses, and the Public Prosecutor's Office Kathmandu has filed a case. SP of CIB Hovindra Bogti claimed that investigation will be done in more cases as well. "For going abroad, you need a license quickly, for that there is a provision to print the license within three days," said Bogti, "In this way, a gang was found who gave the license by making a document in the name of another and storing it in the computer for a sum of 5 to 7 thousand. A case has been prepared and submitted to the court in relation to the gang benefiting from the work.'

Also, the gang was released on bail after providing a fake license to Basyal, who was in custody. A case related to this has been filed in the Kathmandu District Court, but the bench of Judge Durga Bahadur Bhusal on Wednesday ordered Suraj Prakash Aryal and Narayan Pandey to be released on bail of Rs. Spokesman Bogti claimed that the investigation will be carried forward based on the report received from the Department of Transport Management regarding the license. According to the

department, about 5.5 million licenses have been issued so far. Out of which more than one lakh licenses were found to be suspicious. Officials of the department say that licenses made by paying brokers are under suspicion. According to department sources, it is suspected that the government officials who have been the director general since 2007 and some subordinate employees are involved in the business of making fake licenses.

Since 2072, Chandman Shrestha, Roop Narayan Bhattarai, Lavanya Kumar Dhakal, Kumar Prasad Dahal, Gogan Bahadur Hamal, Namram Ghimire, Suresh Raut, Tokraj Pandey, Tulsinath Gautam and Narayan Prasad Bhattarai became the director general of the department. In which some have retired and some are working in home administration, other ministries and departments. However, the CIB has not been able to bring the higher level employees who are the Director General under the legal ambit. So far, only the employees working in the license sector and some middlemen have come under the scope of action.

Director General of the Department Rizal said that after the facts about the suspicious license came out, the applicant ID stored in the 'Migrated App' system, but in the 'Driving License and Registration System' (DL&RS) and 'Electronic Driving License and Vehicle Registration System (EDL&VRS)' system is not the same and the biometric is yet to be taken. He said that 15,615 details have been canceled at present.