Police on Tuesday booked a transporter for allegedly duping a petrol pump owner of Rs 15.38 lakh after purchasing diesel from him and later trying to frame him in a false case in Sidhrawali village in Bilaspur.
According to the police, the petrol pump owner said that the transporter was known to him and had started purchasing diesel from him in September 2017, offering to pay later. Police said the following month, his brother also started purchasing diesel and the combined outstanding amount had reached Rs 15,38,162.
In the complaint, the owner said that when he confronted the accused about the payment, he offered to park his truck at the petrol pump as collateral. “He said that he would take the truck only when he had made the payment.
