Maha: Thane boy takes out for drive car gifted to parents, killed along with friend in crash

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A 17-year-old boy and his friend were killed in an accident in Maharashtra's Thane district after they went for a drive in a car gifted recently to the boy's parents, police said. The car crashed into a tree on Tuesday night on Ulhasnagar-Ambernath road, an official from Ambernath police station told news agency PTI.

The boy was at the wheels in the car which was gifted to his parents, the report said. He was out on a drive with his 18-year-old friend when the car hit a tree, injuring both of them. The two were rushed to a hospital where doctors declared them dead, the official said.

The bodies were sent to a government hospital for post-mortem and a case of accidental death was registered, the police added.

Meanwhile, in the first such move, the Maharashtra government has adopted an online system to transfer Transport Department officials, including motor vehicle inspectors (MVIs) and assistant motor vehicle inspectors (AMVIs), in a bid to curb malpractices during such exercises.

As many as 480 motor vehicle inspectors and assistant motor vehicle inspectors of the department were transferred using the online system, officials said.

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At Sahyadri Guest House in south Mumbai, Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, who holds the transport portfolio, prepared a computerized list of 166 MVIs and 314 AMVIs who were due for transfers and just pressed a key on the online system to complete the process and give them new postings.

For the first time in the transport department's history, the Maharashtra government has adopted an online system for transfers of MVIs and AMVIs to bring transparency in the process and curb corruption, the officials said.

As per a release from the Chief Minister Office's, Shinde has taken a decision to effect online transfers of MVIs and AMVIs starting from this year.

He has directed authorities to carry out RTO (Regional Transport Office) transfers with complete transparency and without any human interventions using the online system, said the release.

"Only because of the chief minister that online transfers of RTO officials have taken place. He was firm on putting in place such a mechanism since the beginning," a transport department officer said.

He said a private company has been appointed to manage the "blockchain-based" software used for online transfers and the database of service records of eligible inspectors was also ready.