Two HPCL asst managers booked for petroleum merchandise theft
LUCKNOW: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered a case towards two assistant managers (Operations) of Hindustan Petroleum Company Ltd (HPCL) Mathura terminal, two personal firms, and unknown individuals on a criticism lodged by the chief vigilance officer of HPCL for theft and pilferage of petroleum merchandise.
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In a press notice shared with the media, CBI officers mentioned that these accused within the FIR had been two assistant managers (Operations) of HPCL Mathura terminal, Rahul Kumar and Hemant Singh together with M/s SR Transport Firm, M/s Jadon Transport Firm, unknown public servants of Hindustan Petroleum Company Restricted and different unknown individuals.
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The officers additional mentioned that it had been alleged that through the interval from June 2022 to January 2024, each HPCL managers had hatched a conspiracy with two personal transport firms and allowed the theft and pilferage of petroleum merchandise from HPCL Mathura terminal, inflicting wrongful loss amounting to ₹5.82 crore to the federal government exchequer and corresponding achieve to the personal transport firms.
It was additionally alleged that, in furthering the conspiracy, each assistant managers had allowed extra loading of about 642 kilolitres of petroleum merchandise in tankers of the accused personal transport firms by way of 305 cases.
They mentioned the CBI was conducting searches on the residential and official premises of the accused in Agra and Mathura. They added {that a} money quantity of ₹12 lakh, property paperwork, and different incriminating paperwork had been recovered from the premises of the accused public servants.
