ANPDU demands arrest of culprits

Following the Rising People’s Party (RPP) exposing the fuel adulteration racket, the All Nagaland Petroleum Dealers Union (ANPDU) Monday expressed grave concern that the “defendants” were still running the same racket on the same premises when the matter was sub judice.
In a press release, ANPDU president Akokla Lucy has appealed to the responsible authority to leave no stone unturned to bring those erring individuals to book.
The union stated that as alleged by the RPP “this nefarious activity” has been going on right under the nose of Dimapur district administration and the Dimapur police commissionerate for many years.
Congratulating RPP for exposing the racket, the ANPDU, however, stated that the linchpin of the alleged organized crime syndicate did not own 46 retail outlets (Ros) in Nagaland as asserted.
It stated that Ros, which had undergone modernization (fully digitalized), had no leeway to indulge in adulteration and manipulation since all modernized ROs were under 24X7 surveillance by the concern Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs).
ANPDU said that it was, therefore, not acceptable to “sweep all the other innocent and clean ROs under the same spectrum of illegal racket.”
The union explained that fuel tankers which supply Nagaland were constantly monitored through an app called Vehicle tracking system. “It is digitally locked as soon as they leave the loading depot enroute to the concerned RO and an OTP is received by the receiving RO to open the digital lock to decant the products.
The union said that the system was put in place to discourage the fuel tankers from opening the locks en route. It claimed that adulterated products will never match the density of the loaded products mentioned in the challan provided by the concerned OMCs for that particular load.