Around 2 lakh surveillance cameras, 350 automatic number plate detection cameras, and over 500 checkpoints guarded by traffic police. And yet, Delhi is choked each day by traffic snarls caused partly by the plying of illegal vehicles.
The rot runs deeper. In fact, an organised racket has enjoyed unbridled control on the movement of illegal traffic, with help from two essentials – the taftishi (or the middleman) and the marka syndicate. This is what a month-long investigation by Newslaundry found, with one of the city’s 50 traffic circles as a case study.
