The Sanpada police dumped three delivery buys illegally and unnecessarily from domestic LPG cylinders through nozzle pipes into empty cylinders and are selling them in the market.
The trio, Manoj Sonaram Bishnoi (21), Manoj Hanuman Ram Bishnoi (22), and Ramswaroop Jagadeesharam Bishnoi (21) and their two absconding companions, Residents of Rajasthan have been stealing gas for the past several months.
All the accused worked as a delivery boy in Sector 5, Sampada, for the Bharat Gas Agency of the Bharat Gas Company.
Police constable Bhausaheb Holgir was smelling a gas leak from Sanpada police station on his way home after duty on Tuesday and finally caught the five red-handed. However, the two of them managed to let him slip.
The accused filled two to three kilos of gas in an empty cylinder and then affixed it with a duplicate seal to sell to customers.
Police seized 25 cylinders – 15 of which were filled for domestic use, eight were empty, and two were partially filled – nozzle pipes, and a Mahindra Maximo Tempo from the possession of the accused.
Senior police inspector Subhash Niketan said all five have been charged under the Essential Commodities Act and related sections of the Indian Penal Code.
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