Dimapur, April 25 (MExN): Breaking its silence, the All Nagaland Petroleum Dealers Union (ANPDU) on Monday expressed concern over the recent fuel adulteration racket in Dimapur. It questioned how a person who has been implicated in a previous adulteration case is still operating the same racket when the matter is still sub judice in a court of law.
“As rightly pointed out by the RPP, why are the same person(s) still operating the racket, when they were busted by the ACAUT in 2016. It is also of grave concern when the matter is sub-judiced, but the defendants are still running the same racket on the same premises,” the Union stated in a press release.
The Union requested the authority to leave no stone unturned to book the erring individuals, for the welfare of the society.
Lauding the Rising People’s Party for bringing to light the fuel adulteration racket, the Union stated that the “nefarious activity has been going on as alleged by the RPP, right under the nose of the Dimapur District Administration and the Dimapur Police Commissionerate for many years.”
However, it pointed out that the “linchpin of this alleged organised crime syndicate does not own 46 ROs in Nagaland as asserted.” It also said that the ROs (retail outlets) which has undergone modernisation (fully digitilised) “has no leeway to indulge in adulteration and manipulation as all modernised ROs are under 24x7 surveillance by the concerned Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs).”
Therefore, it is not acceptable to sweep all the other innocent and clean ROs under the same spectrum of illegal racket, the release stated.
In this connection, the Union informed that the fuel tankers which supplies to Nagaland are fitted and constantly monitored through an app called ‘Vehicle tracking System.’ “It is digitally locked as soon as they leave the loading depot enroute to the concerned RO and an OTP is received by the receiving RO to open the digital lock to decant the products. This system was put in place to discourage the fuel tankers from opening the locks enroute,” it said.
Adulterated products will never match the density of the loaded products mentioned in the challan provided by the concerned OMCs for that particular load, the release stated.
