Police have launched a manhunt to trace driver of a container carrying consignment of copper coils worth over Rs one crore.
The container carrying around 24 MTs of copper wires worth Rs 1.17 crore was dispatched from Dahej in Gujarat to Nhava Sheva port trust where it is supposed to unload the consignment meant for export.
However the vehicle (DD 03 AF 9989) did not reach the destination even after a couple of days," said assistant sub-inspector B. T. Chowdhary of Valiv police station.
A complaint against the driver of the vehicle, Abdul Ahmed Mohamad Hasan Ali, was registered last night under section 407 (criminal breach of trust by carrier) of the IPC, police said.
Police suspect that Ali might have taken the vehicle to an unknown destination for disposing of the copper coils.