Mumbai Police arrests 1 person; seizes 13,550 litres of illegal diesel

The crime branch officials on Friday, February 5, received a tip about fuel-filled shipping containers on a footpath at Dharavi. The fuel was being sold at a lower price than available at petrol pumps.

Mumbai Police arrests 1 person; seizes 13,550 litres of illegal diesel
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On Sunday, February 7, the economic offences wing (EOW) and crime branch control of the Mumbai Police busted an illegal petrol pump operating on a footpath at Dharavi, and seized 13,550 litres of diesel stored in drums.

The crime branch officials on Friday, February 5, received a tip about fuel-filled shipping containers on a footpath at Dharavi. The fuel was being sold at a lower price than available at petrol pumps.

Based on the information, the officers of EOW and crime branch control conducted a raid and seized 13,550 litres of diesel stored in containers, diesel dispensing machines and pumps.

According to reports, the supervisor of the petrol pump has been arrested and the case has been registered relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), the Essential Commodities Act and clauses of the Motor spirit High-speed diesel (The regulation of supply and distribution and malpractices) order. Police also arrested the supervisor of the illegal petrol pump, Indrasing Rathod.

As per sources, a private company had taken a contract from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to supply 100 clean-up vehicles. During investigations, it was found that the fuel was of low quality and since BMC vehicles are not checked, the company managed to cheat the civic body.

Moreover, the company directors, who are wanted by the police, had charged BMC INR 83 per litre of diesel used for the clean-up vehicles and had been filling diesel from the illegal petrol pump at INR50 per litre. They were also selling the diesel illegally to private vehicles in the night.

In a similar case, two months ago, six persons, who ran an illegal petrol pump in Wadala, were been booked by the Mumbai Police Crime Branch. The accused would only sell diesel to known luxury bus and truck owners and at a discount rate. The pump was operating furtively at a service station and had been operational ever since the lockdown.

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