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received, after due check was found a parcel bag marked for
Jubilee H.O in a tampered condition and on opening the
same under full inventory it was found to consist of some
stones with weight approximately equivalent to the
invoiced weight,

The same night with my approval the Inspector of Police
Jubilee area raided the houses of both the mail guard and
driver and quite a few evidences incriminating to the staff

were found. On the following day interrogation of the two
members of the staff revealed the names of other guards and
drivers involved in the racket as well as the modus operandi
involved in the abstraction of contents and substitution by
paper pieces or stones. It appeared one trusted sorter used to
alert the guard who was on duty on the concerned day about
the particulars of the bags,post office of origin and
destination and weight and other dimension particulars. With
the information available the concerned staff would keep
handy the stones of appropriate weight or pieces of paper to
make it look as dollar bills before starting the schedule.
When the vehicle reached Hussain Sagar lake they would
park the van in an unobtrusive spot and take out the bag
earmarked for the operation and after abstracting jewellery
or other valuable material replace the envelope with the
material selected for substitution nod close the bags as before
and continue the schedule.

The police interrogation revealed the network between the
registration sorter in the mail office, mail guard and driver on
the MMS the trader willing to buy stolen goods. The
particular raid brought to light 18 or 20 MMS staff involved
in the racket and the arrest of these staff resulted in a
commotion which had to be contained. Disciplinary action
against these staff resulted in removal from service and in
certain cases summary termination of their service. Suffice it
to say the festering wound which infested the RMS for over a
couple of years was cleansed and public faith in RMS

restored.

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