India, Aug. 4 -- A contractor has been booked for allegedly cheating the Borivali Regional Transport Office (RTO) by failing to destroy more than two tonnes of obsolete official records entrusted to him under a government contract and by not depositing Rs.29,533 realised from their sale with the government.

The MHB Colony police registered an FIR against the accused, Vishal Shankar Shinde, proprietor of Vidisha Corporation, on a complaint filed by Satish Prakash Sonawane, an assistant motor vehicle inspector at the Borivali RTO.

According to the FIR, the RTO initiated the disposal of obsolete records through a tender process in April 2025, requiring the selected contractor to securely destroy the documents while maintaining confidential...