By Our Correspondent
JAJPUR/ROURKELA: Police in Odisha’s industrial rich Jajpur district on Friday arrested Manager of Shubha Steels company at Rourkela, Lichi Agarwal (61), truck owner Nagendra Singh’s son Narayan Singh (39) and the steel plant owner, Hanuman Khodaria (51).
A case (197/2019) has been registered and the truck seized. The market value of the pig iron loaded in both the trucks worth Rs 13 lakh, the police said.According to police, two stolen pig iron-laden trucks were dispatched to Chhattisgarh from MESCO Steel plant in Kalinga Nagar of Jajpur district on October 8.
“The truck driver, Sarabjit Singh of Gurdaspur in Punjab, however, unloaded the consignment at a steel company in Rourkela and fled to Punjab. Following this, Iron laden truck did not reach the destination. Subsequently, the transporting company owner, Tapan Kumar Sahoo lodged a police complaint with Kalinganagar Police Station regarding this matter,” said a police official.
Police later traced the mobile phone of one of the truck driver, Sarabjit Singh and managed to nab him from Punjab. Kalinga Nagar police registered a case against the trio and forwarded them to court . Police said that they are also trying to nab the other truck driver involved in the crime.
