KUMUD JENAMANI
Jamshedpur, May 5: A consignment of steel pipes worth Rs 16 lakhs has been stolen on way from Burmamines locality of Jamshedpur to Howrah.
In this connection, the police have registered a case with the Burmamines thana on the basis of an FIR lodged on Thursday by a Howrah-based transporter against Santosh Kumar and Brajesh Kumar.
The transporter Ashok Yadav has alleged in the FIR that he had got his truck loaded with steel pipes at the Lal Baba Tube Company in Burmamines on Wednesday morning for sending it to a place in Howrah. The truck carrying the consignment of the steel pipes was supposed to reach Howrah by Thursday morning, but it has not reached there yet.
According to the transporter, Santosh Kumar and Brajesh Kumar who are the driver and cleaner of the truck respectively have switched off their cell phones after leaving the steel city for Howrah.
Yadav has said a physical verification by his men for the pipe-laden truck en route to Howrah also proved futile on Thursday. After failing to make any contact with the driver and cleaner of the Howrah-bound truck that he prompted to knock on the door of the Burmamines thana today,
The OC, Burmamines thana, Raju confirmed the disappearance of a pipe-laden truck from the Burmamines police station area.
“We have started searching for the truck and trying to find out the whereabouts of the driver and cleaner by putting their cell phone numbers on surveillance. But as of now, no progress could be done in this regard, ” said the OC.
The police officer pointed out that both the accused must have gone to some other city to get the stolen consignment disposed of. He said they have alerted the police of West Bengal and neighbouring Odisha as well as Chhattisgarh beside other cities of Jharkhand about the pipe-laden truck so that the police may remain vigilant against the stolen vehicle.
