Indian Railway wagon reaches UP from Andhra Pradesh in 3.5 years
New Delhi, July 27: In yet another ‘laurel’ for Indian railways, a goods wagon booked in 2014 took 3.5 years to complete 1400 Km journey to reach its destination in Uttar Pradesh (UP). As per reports, the wagon was booked by a trader to transport fertilizers from the Visakhapatnam port to UP’s Basti but when there was no sign of the wagon for several months, the trader contacted the Railway officials.
The officials had no explanation as to why the wagon booked to transport fertilizers from a public sector company Indian Potash Limited, reached its destination in Uttar Pradesh’s Basti after such a long time. Despite the trader’s best efforts to reach out to the railway authorities in UP and Andhra Pradesh, the authorities failed to track the wagon and its whereabouts.
The wagon finally rolled into the Basti railway station on Thursday after travelling to several railway stations for such a long time which led to the decay of the consignment.
This isn’t the first time that Indian Railways messed up destinations and timelines, in March a Delhi-bound passenger train 64464 travelling from Panipat to Delhi landed up on the wrong station. The train took a different course and reached the Old Delhi Railway station instead of New Delhi Railway station. One employee was suspended and the authorities blamed.
Last month, new coaches attached to trains running between New Delhi and Ranchi went missing. The coached belonged to premium trains such as the Rajdhani Express and Sampark Kranti Express went missing. The authorities had no clue and speculated that organised gangs were behind the theft of the bogies.
Courtesy: www.timesnownews.com
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Man arrested with Rs 2.54-crore heroin in Mumbai
Mumbai (PTI): Police have arrested a man and seized over 500 grams of heroin worth Rs 2.54 crore in the illicit market from him in Mumbai, officials said on Friday.
The police's Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) made the drug seizure in Santacruz in the western suburbs. The operation was conducted by the Kandivali unit of the ANC on Thursday as part of a special crackdown against drug trafficking in the area, they said.
Acting on specific inputs, an ANC team conducted a raid in Santacruz (East) and intercepted a man. During a search, the team recovered 508 grams of high-grade heroin from his possession, an official said.
The seized contraband, a highly addictive, opioid drug derived from morphine, is estimated to be worth Rs 2.54 crore in the international market, he informed.
Following the seizure, a case was registered against the man under relevant sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985, and he was formally placed under arrest in the early hours of Friday.
The police are currently investigating the source of the drug and trying to identify the intended recipients of the consignment, he said.
