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LAHORE: Some 480 kilo of copper leads approximately worth Rs3 million have gone missing from 14 locomotives stationed at the Lahore Loco Shed.

The locomotives were declared beyond repair or condemned in September last and were hauled to the Lahore Loco Shed, a source in the Railways Workshops Division said on Tuesday. A locomotive has six copper leads, each weighing 10 kilo, said the source.

A senior officer of the workshops division said the leads had been fitted in other locomotives between November and December last year when their shortage was at its peak.

However, the source belied the claim of the officer and said there existed a prescribed procedure for removal of any spare part from condemned locomotives, power vans, coaches and wagons.

“Record of removed parts – serial numbers of the locomotives and the removed parts – is maintained. After fitting the removed parts in other locomotive the record is updated. The workshops division has no such record and the leads are missing from locomotives,” says the source.

Railway Lahore Police Station Station House Officer Pervaiz Akhtar said neither any complaint was lodged with him nor the matter was in his knowledge.