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DTC cuts more than 400 bus marshals for having criminal records, fake IDs
Hindustan Times
|October 06, 2025
The Delhi Transport Corporation has removed at least 467 bus marshals, deployed for the safety of passengers, particularly women, after an internal investigation found that dozens of them had criminal records or used fake ID cards.
According to DTC and Delhi Police records, at least 90 home guards working as bus marshals have criminal record, while a further 374 either had a fake ID or had incomplete or incorrect information on it.
All 464 of these marshals have been removed and sent them back to their home department. “We have repatriated them back to the Directorate of Home Guards,” a DTC official told HT.
This story is from the October 06, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times.
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