Three senior officials, including the husband of TDP State Women’s Wing President Shobha Hymavathi, were suspended recently by the Hindustan Shipyard Ltd (HSL) management in connection with the scrap material scam. The scam, worth Rs. 3.5 crores, came to light a couple of months ago.The shipyard’s management has already suspended seven employees with three of them having already been arrested by police.
Former TDP MLA’s husband S Appala Raju, who is a dry dock engineer, security inspector Suri Babu and security supervisor Kumar Dhainik were the those suspended. Police arrested Kumar Dhainik, Suri Babu and Rajan Appala Raju, who were among those suspended earlier. Sources said that Appala Raju and Samuel were absconding.
The tainted employees of HSL, which was recently merged with the Defence Ministry, came under the scanner after about 360 tonnes of scrap were found missing from official records.
The shipyard management came to know of this on June 12 and immediately took action against the officials allegedly involved in the scam. Waste material from the newly constructed vessels and repaired ships is usually sent to scrap merchants as per norms stipulated by the shipyard. Five lorries of 17 tonnes capacity each daily pick up the scrap from the shipyard. But the accused officials caused losses to HSL by lowering the weight of the lorry from 17 tonnes to 12 tonnes and carting away the balance to private players.
“This went on for almost 72 days before the HSL management stumbled upon the missing scrap,” sources said. Each tonne of scrap, which is imported steel, fetches Rs 16,000 to Rs 17,000.
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