Days after mid-day reported (‘Want a bike licence? Wear a helmet: RTO’, May 28) that the city RTO had decided not to let applicants for permanent two-wheeler licences appear for the test if they don’t wear a helmet, we set out to find whether the rule was being implemented.

IN CAHOOTS? An agent is seen handing over the applicant’s documents to Assistant Inspector Sheetal Gosawi. Pics/Mohan Patil

Some time spent at the Phulenagar driving test ground did not only reveal that it was not, it also led to us unearthing a web of corruption spun by agents in cahoots with RTO inspectors. We learnt that, if you pay the right people, you can forget about helmets because the test itself becomes a formality.