Kanpur (UP), Nov 12 (PTI) In a crackdown on an illegal mining racket, Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) on Wednesday busted an organised extortion racket that allegedly facilitated the passage of overloaded trucks through the Fatehpur route in exchange for hefty bribes, police said.

Acting on a tip-off, the STF Lucknow unit exposed a network of officials and touts allegedly collecting money from sand and other material-laden trucks plying through Fatehpur’s Asothar route, they said.

An FIR has been registered at Thariaon police station against six accused, including an unidentified district mining officer, his gunner Raju, the driver of an RTO (road transport officer) official, identified as Bablu Patel alias Shyamu, and two others — Dhirendra Singh (25) and Mukesh Tiwari — besides

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