Guwahati: Exposing the lack of safety of vehicles and drivers on national highways, a driver of a trailer and 10 new Maruti cars have been missing since the last 20 days after entering Assam through the Srerampur gate last month.
The trailer, which was also initially missing from Bhawanipur, Barpeta, was finally located at Dergaon, Jorhat, but no trace of the driver, Rameshwar Singh, or the vehicles have been found. ”We have approached the police and also lodged an FIR. But we are yet to get any results,” Prabin Singh, a partner of Assam Logistics Ltd, the company that owned the trailer, said at a press conference here today.
He said the trailer was carrying 10 new Maruti cars, valued close to Rs 30 lakh, from Maneswar, Haryana, to Silchar. The last reading of the GPS fitted in the trailer positioned it at Bhawanipur on September 20, after which the trailer was found at Dergaon seven days later.
”We found the trailer in an empty condition. Whereabouts of the driver is also not know,” Mr Singh added. Besides the cars, the GPS machine and hydraulic motor of the trailer was also missing. Incidents of drivers being assaulted or killed and vehicles taken away from national highways are regularly reported from across the state. Though both police and taxi and truck drivers themselves have also tried to ensure better security measures, all attempts have proven to be mostly futile. (UNI)