Truck owner, driver arrested for stealing 30 tonnes of rice and filing false case
The Hindu
To make up for his losses and pay off a loan, the owner colluded with his driver and claimed the goods and truck had been stolen
A truck owner has been arrested for allegedly colluding with the driver he had hired to steal 30 tonnes of rice that was to be transported to a customer in order to recover the losses he had incurred. He planned to sell over 1,200 sacks of rice, and also sold the truck to a junkyard in Salem, Tamil Nadu, before reporting the ‘theft’.
The Bagepalli police, while probing the case, realised that the truck owner, Giddaiah, who runs Jai Maruthi Transport, had orchestrated the incident.
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