A Delhi court remanded in judicial custody two businessmen arrested for allegedly siphoning off crores of rupees in fitness tests of commercial vehicles in Delhi in connivance with the transport department. Nitin Mahawat, director of ESP India, and Puran Chand Tamta, CEO of ESP India’ alliance partner’s Tambros India Ltd, were remanded in custody till 15 March by special judge B R Kedia. The two had been arrested by Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) on 25 February and remanded in police custody till Friday. Their arrests were made after the complaint of RTI activist Vivek Garg alleging that the contract for lane test of commercial vehicles before grant of fitness certificates was granted by the Delhi government to ESP India without inviting any tender. Garg’s counsel Jairam had sought registration of FIR against Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, former transport minister Arvinder Singh Lovely, former Transport Commissioner R K Verma and ESP India. ACB had, however, given a clean chit to Dikshit and Lovely.