Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Aug 25: Crime Branch Kashmir has registered a case against proprietors of Sachdeva Metal Works for supplying sub-standard ductile iron pipes and also against the officials of M/s CEIL RK Puram New-Delhi for preparing false documents.
As per officials spokesman, Crime Branch Kashmir has registered a case against proprietors of M/s Sachdeva Metal Works Jallandhar and officials of M/s CEIL RK Puram New-Delhi on a complaint received from proprietor of M/s New Valley Hardware Store Maisuma Srinagar alleging therein that he had placed an order for supply of centrifugally cast (spun) ductile iron pipe (210 meters) of 600 MM K9(ND) to Arvind Paul Singh Sachdeva and other Proprietors of M/s Sachdeva Metal Works Jallandhar Punjab and the stock he received was substandard.
The applicant is under contract with J&K Government for supply these pipes and installed on a work of PHE Department. During test checks of the work, several pipes got burst and several others developed cracks, spokesman said, adding that PHE Department has confirmed that the pipes supplied by the above said firm and installed in the work are substandard.
Subsequently, a preliminary enquiry was initiated in Crime Branch Kashmir, Srinagar during which it transpired that the alleged companies M/s Sachdeva Sales Corporation and M/s Sachdeva Metal Works have supplied the ductile iron pipes on different dates and were sub standard in nature.
The spokesman informed that accordingly a case has been registered against proprietors of M/s Sachdeva Metal Works namely Arvind Paul Singh Sachdeva, Varpreet Singh Sachdeva and Daljeet Singh Sachdeva, sons of late Sardar Rajinder Singh and officials of M/s CEIL RK Puram New Delhi for preparing false documents.
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