A Railway locomotive worth Rs 5 crore has gone missing after being taken into possession illegally by the contractor who was appointed to transport it from Kalka in Haryana to Mumbai. Recently, the Wadala TT police registered an offence against the contractor and teams have been formed to locate the missing engine. 

The police said the company which had got a sub-contract to transport ZDM 3—a narrow-gauge locomotive used to pull toy trains—from Mumbai to Kalka (Haryana) and back had raised a bill of Rs 4.25 lakh. The engine was transported from Mumbai to Kalka but the contracting company allegedly didn’t pay the money on time. Following this, the sub-contractor demanded an additional Rs 60,000 for the delay in payment and didn’t deliver the locomotive to Mumbai.