new delhi delhi high court has brought together the aap government and cbi who have often been at loggerheads to screen genuine autorickshaw drivers to ply in the city in a recent order the court directed both authorities to verify almost 350 driverowners who received letters of intent loi from delhi government in 2015 and purchased new vehicles but were denied registration after the auto permit scheme faced corruption allegations justice j r midha directed the cbi director and delhis transport commissioner to nominate an officer each for a twomember committee and weed out those who allegedly paid bribes through dealers to secure a permit the courts order came on a petition filed by a group of applicants through advocate rishi manchanda blaming aap government for leaving them in the lurch by first announcing issuance of 10000 new auto permits and then suddenly putting it on hold due to corruption allegations the government had then referred the case to cbi to investigate it the petitioners said they took loans to purchase autos after collecting their loi but were suddenly informed by the authorities that the vehicles couldnt be registered they argued that by preventing them from registering their vehicles the government violated their fundamental rights justice midha agreed to the suggestion placed before him by the delhi governments standing counsel rahul mehra to form a panel of officers to complete the task the committee shall verify the claims of the petitioners and pass an order giving a list of those whose cases are verified the committee can take assistance of delhi police for verification and its findings shall be final the court noted it gave two more weeks to the transport department to register drivers vetted and cleared by the committee by abhinav garg tnn published on jun 8 2016 at 1223 pm ist telegram facebook copy link be the first one to comment comment now comments comment now read comment 1 all comments post post find this comment offensive choose your reason below and click on the submit button this will alert our moderators to take actions reasons for reporting foul language defamatory inciting hatred against a certain community out of context spam others report join the community of 2m industry professionals subscribe to our newsletter to get latest insights analysis download etauto app get realtime updates save your favourite articles scan to download app cbi delhi high court aap government issuing permits homenewsindustrydelhi govt cbi to screen auto drivers for issuing permits