In a significant development, Crime Branch, Jammu has lodged an FIR against a Jammu-based steel manufacturing unit for allegedly supplying and selling substandard steel items in the market.
A Crime Branch handout said that FIR 17/2014 U/S 420, 120-B RPC read with Sec 5(2) PC Act Svt.2006 has been registered against Jhelum Steel Industries supplying units and officers/officials of the store and procurement department Jammu.
The Crime branch had received complaints alleging that Jhelum Steel Industries at SIDCO Complex Samba was manufacturing steel rods of inferior quality in the absence of any specialized plant by using substandard material and thereafter supplying them to government agencies and civilians.
Crime branch during its enquiry “found that Jhelum Steel Industry was the franchise of Kamdhenu TMT.”
“During the investigation it was also found that generally four technologies are used for production of quality steel i.e. Thermax, Tempcore, Evcon Torbo and Sal Tempcore whereas, the factory did not use either of them,” it said.
“The samples of Saria (steel rods) were collected from the factory premises as well as out of the material supplied to Deputy Director Store and Procurement department in presence of Executive Magistrate, and were sent for testing to the SICOP lab at Gangyal and National Institute of Secondary Steel Technology, Punjab,” the report said.
It said that reports of analysis received from the labs revealed that the samples failed in respect of percentage, elongation as well as maximum percentage of Phosphorus and total percentage of Phosphorus Sulphur and Carbon and also failed to pass BIS standards specified under ISI 2830-1992.
“It was also found during the course of enquiry that Jehlum Steel factory was actually getting the supply of Ingots from three factories located at Bari Brahmna namely Jammu Casting, Tawi Chemicals and Quality Casting and then manufacturing/producing sub-standard steel rods and thereafter using the Kamdhenu TMT brand and supplying the same fraudulently in-connivance with the officials of the Government departments, thereby causing loss to state exchequer,” the statement said.
Pertinently, as per the guidelines the steel rods are to be manufactured only by molding ISO bullets (raw material), while on the contrary to these guidelines, in Jammu region many steel manufacturing units are violating the guidelines thus jeopardizing the security and safety of the people, it said.
Source: Greater Kashmir
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