GST sleuths internet Rs 30 lakh edible oil looted from Keonjhar

By Express News Service
ROURKELA:  On path of tax evaders, the Rourkela enforcement unit of Commercial Tax (CT) & GST stumbled upon two vehicles carrying Rs 30 lakh value edible oil looted from Keonjhar’s Telkoi at Kuanrmunda on Wednesday evening. Deputy commissioner of CT&GST, Rourkela Ramesh Mandal mentioned the enforcement unit intercepted two vehicles en path to Bihar on January 13 evening close to Kuanrmunda.

The truck drivers have been carrying pretend buy and method invoice and on additional verification, it emerged that the edible oil was truly looted from Keonjhar district. The drivers additional acknowledged that they’d loaded the oil on behalf of 1 Pappu Singh of Vedvyas in Rourkela.

Requesting anonymity, the Bhubaneswar-based distributor of the edible oil mentioned as many as 2,100 packing containers of Mahakosh Soyabean refined oil and Ruchi No 1 Vanaspati oil have been dispatched in a truck from Ruchi Soya Industries Ltd in West Bengal. The truck was headed for Jharsuguda however the automobile was hijacked by unidentified miscreants. They assaulted the motive force and helper at an inside location in Telkoi and fled with the loaded truck. 

He additional mentioned these behind the loot tried to promote the edible oil in Raipur. After failing of their try, they loaded the edible oil packing containers in two completely different vehicles and have been on strategy to Bihar through Jharkhand. An inter-State racket is behind the incident as such loots are ceaselessly going down on the route. 

Mandal mentioned the loaded vehicles have been detained at Kuanrmunda whereas investigation by Telkoi police and CT&GST authorities is underway.      Sources mentioned a staff of Telkoi police is tenting at Kuanrmunda close to Rourkela for investigation. Telkoi IIC Padmasini Meher mentioned probe is underway however refused to share any particulars.