Overview
- An India Today investigation documented PUCCs issued without tailpipe tests, including remote approvals via WhatsApp photos or videos for seized or immobile vehicles in Delhi and Ghaziabad.
- In the past 24 hours, teams inspected 4,927 vehicles and issued 3,970 challans, including 2,390 by Delhi Traffic Police for PUCC violations, 285 by transport enforcement, and 1,114 via ANPR cameras, with 170 GRAP challans by police and 11 by the transport department.
- Enforcers impounded 28 buses in a single day and roughly 100 buses so far this month for pollution-related violations, while 238 vehicles were allowed to resume operation after compliance.
- Delhi suspended 28 PUC centres, cancelled two licences and initiated action against two more, and blacklisted four centres including the Gokulpuri site named in the probe and an associated Tikri Kalan outlet, with a police complaint filed at Gokulpuri.
- The Transport Department asked Uttar Pradesh and Haryana to act on forged or irregular out-of-state PUCCs, directed senior officials to personally inspect centres, and outlined plans for automated fitness testing stations.