Indian Oil team inspects fuel tank

ALLAHABAD: After receiving reports of underweighing of diesel and adulteration in oil tankers supplying fuel at UPSRTC bus depot in Rajapur, a team of Indian Oil Corporation on Saturday inspected the fuel tank at the bus depot and measured the fuel brought in by tankers.
The team also took samples of diesel from the workshop and checked it with the help of instruments to verify the report of adulteration in diesel.They also heard the complaints of workshop employees. The team will submit its report to the higher officials of the corporation.
On Friday evening, roadways employees had caught a tanker driver and cleaner while they were trying to steal diesel from the tanker which they had brought for refilling the fuel tank at the depot.
But duo managed to flee from the spot. It was found that more than 45 litres diesel was missing from all the four chambers of the oil tanker.
The employees brought the matter to the notice of senior officials of the roadways department including the assistant regional manager, Rajesh Pathak who in turn apprised the Indian Oil officials about the incident and sought their intervention.
Talking to TOI, Pathak said that on Saturday when the team inspected the said tanker which was seized by roadways employees it was found that the total quantity of diesel was short by around 65 litres which means that it was causing a loss of Rs 3,250 to the department at a single depot and given the fact that total number of depots in the city is around 8 the loss is enormous.
He added that a report has been prepared jointly the roadways department and Indian Oil which would be forwarded to the state government for further action. On the other hand, a roadways driver Shakeel Khan was suspended from service on Saturday after he was found stealing 17 litres of diesel from his bus, said Pathak.