Man who ran fake RTO arrested (Lead)

Ghaziabad March 8 (IANS) A man who ran a fake Additional Regional Transport Office (ARTO) by hacking the website of the Regional Transport Authority (RTA) from a shop here in Indirapuram was arrested on Thursday police said.

Acting on a tip off the police arrested the man who was impersonating as the Regional Transport Officer in Ghaziabad and seized cash fake seals a laptop a printer and fake tax receipts from him.

Superintendent of Police Akash Tomar said the police sent a decoy to get his vehicle s clearance by paying road tax.

As the decoy paid money the man opened the website and issued a receipt put a seal and handed over the cash receipt to him. He was immediately arrested.

The man revealed his identity as Manoj a resident of Ghaziabad.

"We are planning to take police remand so that the entire gang can be busted who had cheated the state exchequer of crores of rupees " said Tomar.

--IANS
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