Road contractor booked for cheating VMC of Rs 8 crore

Vadodara | Sunday | 22nd July, 2018

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The firm has been accused of cheating the civic body to the tune of Rs 8.33crore.Deputy executive engineer of the road department of the civic body Narendra Rabari registered the offence on Friday night. VADODARA: The Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) registered an offence of forgery and cheating against Divya Simandhar Constrution Private Ltd (DSCPL) at the Navapura police station regarding the alleged fraud in road construction works. The offence accuses the firm of cheating and forgery amongst other offences. The contractor should have used VG30 grade bitumen for laying the roads. The invoice number, numbers of trucks used to transport the bitumen and the quantity invoices also did not tally..