Three police officers allegedly involved in illegal trafficking of iron bars have been shunted to police lines by Ghaziabad SSP Vaibhav Krishna. Ghaziabad Police during night patrol on NH-24 on Friday busted a mafia gang involved in trafficking of illegal iron bar and arrested the kingpin, along with 20 other members of his gang.
Also, police seized 20 trucks involved in transportation of illegal iron bars. Iron bars worth Rs 3 crore have been seized by police.
According to police the kingpin confessed of committing crime in collusion with local police. “Following which SHO Kavi Nagar Samarjit Singh, SHO Vijay Nagar Naresh Kumar Singh and police post incharge Pavendra Singh have been attached to police lines,” said SSP.
The SSP Ghaziabad Vaibhav Krishna said, “It came to my knowledge that iron bars are being trafficked illegally by stealing it from factory trucks and are being sold evading tax. On Friday night we conducted a random checking and intensive patrolling on National Highway-24 from UP Gate to Pilkhuwa and seized 20 trucks and detained 21 persons including the mafia Satish Yadav.”
Drivers also confessed their crime and revealed that they were operating at the behest of iron mafia Satish Yadav.
Police said the accused revealed that he used to intercept the trucks coming out of the factory then his men used to unload iron bars from the trucks and put scrap of the same quality due to which trucks carrying the load cannot be caught at weighing stations.