As reported earlier, two traders of Kolar, Saqlain and Munireddy, booked a truck to deliver tomatoes to their dealer at Jaipur in Rajasthan on July 27. The truck left the same day and was to reach Jaipur on Saturday night or early Sunday morning. As the truck did not reach the destination, the traders in Kolar tried to contact the driver and found his mobile switched off. Even the truck owner was not reachable. A GPS tracker attached to the truck showed it had travelled a distance of around 1,700km but had not reached the designated place. Apprehending something fishy, the consignors lodged a police complaint.
Meanwhile, the traders in Kolar learnt that the driver had sold the entire consignment, worth about Rs 21 lakh, to a dealer in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, for Rs 11 lakh and had collected the first instalment of Rs 5 lakh. The truck owner has surfaced and offered the traders to come forward for a “settlement”, said one of the complainants.
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