This story is from January 17, 2018

DPS bus accident: Papers were uploaded by remotely accessing computers in MP's Neemuch

DPS bus accident: Papers were uploaded by remotely accessing computers in MP's Neemuch
INDORE: The city-based agency responsible for installing the speed limiting device (SLD) on the ill-fated DPS bus that met with an accident and killed four children had remotely accessed computers in Neemuch town to upload forged renewal certificates on transport department website.
These claims were made by two Neemuch-based travel agents arrested by the cyber cell of police for forging and uploading the documents on the transport department portal on January 8, three days after the bus met with the accident on the Indore Bypass.

The cyber cell police were also checking details of people the accused were in contact with, since the accident and the date of uploading the forged renewal certificate of the SLD installed on the Tata bus owned by DPS.
Shyamlal Prajapat and Kuldeep Jhala, operators of Prajapat Yatayat, were produced before a court and send on a day’s police remand. During interrogation, the accused claimed that officials of Indore-based Suvidha Auto Gas, who had installed the device, had accessed their computer through software – Teamviewer – and uploaded the documents.
Soon after the accident, city police had arrested Suvidha Auto Gas director Neeraj Agnihotri and its staffer Jalaj Meshram, along with DPS transport manager Chaitanya Kumawat. They were sent on judicial remand.
The cyber cell police now plans to interrogate Suvidha Auto Gas officials about the claims of the travel agents. The computers seized from Prajapat Yatat were also being sent for forensic tests to ascertain how many times it was accessed remotely.

The forgery had come to the fore during investigations launched by the transport department on documents related to the Tata bus – MP09FA2029 – after the deaths of the children and subsequent uproar it created from different quarters of flawed norms and negligence by implementing authorities.
The SLD renewal certificate showed that the speed of the bus was limited to 40kmph. Ironically, the transport department’s directives to bring down the maximum speed limit from 60kmph to 40kmph came on January 6, a day after the accident.
Finding the documents uploaded on January 8 suspicious, the transport department officials had approached Rosemerta Technologies Ltd, which claimed that neither the company nor its Madhya Pradesh dealer Pragya Yatayat (Gwalior) had issued the renewal certificate.
Subsequently, a complaint was lodged with the state cyber cell.
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