Truck owner arrested for threatening ARTO in Mirzapur

Varanasi: Mirzapur police arrested a truck owner, Raju Chaubey, for allegedly threatening and blackmailing additional regional transport officer (administration/enforcement) Vivek Kumar Shukla after failing to pressurise him for waiving road tax.
Inspector Katra Kotwali Swaminath Prasad said, “On the complaint of ARTO a named FIR against Raju Chaubey has been lodged under section 186 (voluntarily obstruct any public servant in the discharge of his public functions), 500 (defamation) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of IPC.”
“When police raided Chaube’s house he tried to jump from the roof to escape.In this bid, Chaubey’ got his leg fractured and was admitted to district hospital under police custody. Police are trying to identifying Chaubey’s accomplice, who has also been made an accused in this case,” he added.
In his complaint, the ARTO alleged that when the process for realising dues of tax on the Chaubey’s trucks was started by the transport department he threatened him and asked to stop tax realisation. The ARTO has assumed charge of his office recently.
However, when the ARTO did not come under his pressure, Chaubey gave an application to senior officials alleging Shukla was seeking bribe.
Later, he made call to ARTO over phone and threatened that the latter will be booked in a fake case of rape. Chaubey also used indecent language for the ARTO. The audio clip of this conversation went viral on social media on Friday after which police and senior officials of district administration swung into action.