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Mumbai police have registered a First Info Report (FIR) after a transporter didn’t ship a railway engine value Rs 5 crore from Haryana to Mumbai on account of a dispute over cost, an official stated on Wednesday.
The engine was loaded on a trailer at Kalka two months in the past however didn’t attain right here, stated an official of Wadala TT police station.
As per the criticism lodged by Anil Kumar Gupta, an authorised transporter of Indian Railways, he had employed Pawan Sharma, one other transporter, to ship a railway engine at Kalka and ferry one other engine from there to Mumbai.
Gupta had agreed to pay Rs 4,25,000 to Sharma’s firm. Out of that, he paid Rs Four lakh, the criticism stated.
Sharma’s agency loaded the engine on a trailer truck on Might 2, however as a result of delay in cost, it didn’t ship it on the Parel yard of the railways right here, the police official stated.
Sharma informed police that the engine has been stationed at a petroleum pump in Rajasthan, and he didn’t ship it due to the excellent cost of round Rs 60,000.
“On Gupta’s criticism, we now have registered an FIR beneath Indian Penal Code sections 406 (breach of belief) and 420 (dishonest),” the official stated, including that no arrest has been made. The probe was underway, he stated.
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