
Morung Express News
Dimapur | June 28
Two FIRs have been filed at separate police stations in connection to the fuel adulteration revelations by the ACAUT on June 28. The number of arrests stood at 5 on June 28 with 2 under the custody of the Diphupar Police Station and 3 under the custody of the West Police Station.
While all the four adulteration units have been sealed, the police informed no fresh arrests have been made as on Tuesday and added that applications have been filed for police remand of the people arrested.
Dimapur Deputy Commissioner, Kesonye Yhome on Tuesday said that steps to be taken would depend on how the investigation unfolds in the next few days.
However, no ‘special investigation’ has been announced as yet to probe the case and the state government has still to comment on the PDS kerosene siphoning as alleged by the ACAUT.
While the investigation at present is confined to Dimapur, the possibility of it turning into an inter-district operation cannot be ruled out with the ACAUT on June 27 alleging one of the suspects named in the exposure as having fuel retail outlets in 4 other districts aside from Dimapur. The alleged NPG nexus further makes the investigation more complex with one of the names revealed by the ACAUT on June 27 reported to be a member of a Naga Political Group.
The DC added that the case demands result-oriented “triangular coordination” between the police, the administration and the judiciary. Isolated instances of the authorities clamping down on suspected adulteration units in the past have had little or no effect with the units resuming operations after remaining low for a brief while.