Sponge iron unit sealed, owner arrested
Rourkela: Police on yesterday sealed Maa Tarini Sponge iron unit at Kalunga
near here for illegally procuring iron ore, and arrested its executive director
Bhupendra Das and remanded him to judicial custody.
The arrest
of Das came following recent raids on the said unit at Jiabahal, Brahmani
Tarang police said.
According to
police, the plant owned by Hanuman Goel was found to be not maintaining proper
records of iron ore procurement and other transactions. During the earlier raid
on Friday, it was found from the documents that that the company which had
shown shortage of iron ore stock, was false.
Investigation
is on and more arrests are likely, police said. Sources said that the police
had not taken any steps earlier to arrest the owner of the plant against whom a
criminal case under Arms Act was registered few months ago. At that time it was
alleged that the police did not take action against him due to his close
proximity with the higher officials.
It is also
alleged that several sponge iron unit in and around Kalunga Industrial Estate
are involved in fraud practices.
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