Fake toll plaza operates for over a year, scamming motorists out of millions

[Doctor_Faustus]

@pesco

According to Financial Express, police “said that the accused used to stop vehicles and force them to use the makeshift toll plazas they set up instead of the one operated by an authorised operator on a national highway.”

They “created bypass roads through WHTPL premises on the east of the NHAI toll plaza and through Vaghasia village west of the toll plaza, diverted vehicles to these bypass roads and extorted toll tax from vehicle drivers who took the bypasses.”

So it’s not so much fake toll booths as unauthorised roads with lower toll than the official ones.

That said, as soon as I saw the headline, I knew this had to be in India. Nowhere else can you run such a huge and elaborate scam