Jaipur:
A food firm has lodged an FIR against the Indian Oil Corporation's (IOC) employees complaining that negligence on their part resulted in leakage from a crude oil pipeline that caused losses to the firm.
Manager of JVS foods, located near the IOC's pump house at Sitapura area, where the leakage occurred on Sunday, alleged that a fountain of crude oil spilled in the firm's premises damaging wheat and other food grains stored there.
The FIR was lodged on Sunday with the Sanganer Sadar police station circle, police said.
Over 20,000 litres of crude oil leaked from a crack in the state-owned Indian Oil Corporation's pipeline and spilled into the Sitapura industrial area, which had witnessed a major fire in IOC depot in 2009.