The engine was loaded on a trailer at Kalka two months ago but did not reach Mumbai, said an official of Wadala TT police station.
Mumbai police have registered a First Information Report (FIR) after a transporter failed to deliver a railway engine worth ₹ 5 crore from Haryana to Mumbai due to a dispute over payment, an official said on Wednesday.
The engine was loaded on a trailer at Kalka two months ago but did not reach here, said an official of Wadala TT police station.
As per the complaint lodged by Anil Kumar Gupta, an authorised transporter of Indian Railways, he had hired Pawan Sharma, another transporter, to deliver a railway engine at Kalka and ferry another engine from there to Mumbai.
Gupta had agreed to pay ₹ 4,25,000 to Sharma’s company. Out of that, he paid ₹ 4 lakh, the complaint said.
Sharma’s firm loaded the engine on a trailer truck on May 2, but due to the delay in payment, it did not deliver it at the Parel yard of the railways here, the police official said.
Sharma told police that the engine has been stationed at a petrol pump in Rajasthan, and he did not deliver it because of the outstanding payment of around ₹ 60,000.
