The Bhuban police in Dhenkanal district have arrested four truck drivers while they were trying to dispose of 24 tonnes of iron channels of a consigner of Jagatsinghpur which they had stolen. The arrested drivers were identified as drivers Pradeep Kumar Sahu, Ajit Kumar Parida, Subash Sahoo and Chandramani Jena. Sources said a consigner of Jagatsinghpur district after purchasing the iron channels from Chhatisgarh, had hired a Brajarajnagar-based transporter Samir Sharma’s trucks to ferry the materials to the destination.
But when the materials did not reach him after a long time, he informed the transporter Sharma regarding the missing of the channel loaded trucks. Later, Sharma came to know from some source that the truck drivers were disposing the iron channels at Kansgoda in Bhuban. He immediately lodged a FIR at the Bhuban police station.
Following which the cops swung into action and nabbed the four accused and confiscated the trucks along with the channels.
The drivers had cunning changed the original registration number plates of the trucks and fixed fake ones. Police have lodged a case under relevant sections of the IPC and forwarded all the accused to court.