SAMBA POLICE ARRESTED MAIN ACCUSED INVOLVED IN LPG GAS PILFERAGE SCANDAL

All Accused Involved In LPG Gas Pilferage Have Been Arrested : SSP Samba Benam Tosh

Samba, Dec 11 : Samba Police has arrested main accused involved in LPG gas pilferage scandal unearthed last month in the jurisdiction of Police Post Supwal, Samba. He is the fifth accused arrested by police so far in the case during the ongoing investigation.

The main accused arrested in case FIR No. 274/2023 u/s 3/7 EC Act, 406, 409, 120-B, 285, 413 IPC has been identified as Tara Chand s/o Rasalo Ram r/o Dabuj Jakh tehsil Ramgarh district Samba.

Earlier, on the intervening night of 15th and 16th of November 2023, police had arrested two accused red-handed while extracting gas from two Indane Gas Tankers and filling it in the commercial cylinders at midnight at Village Chhajwal Barian. The third & fourth accused were arrested by police on 19th & 28th of November 2023 respectively in the instant case. Now the fifth & main accused who was the driver of the second Indane Gas Tanker and had fled from the spot, has also been arrested by police from Ramgarh area.

The pilferage of gas from Indane gas tankers had been committed for the last over four months at the same place during midnight hours. The Indane gas tankers coming from Punjab side to Indane LPG Bottling Plant Bari Brahmana, Samba used to come to this particular place i.e Chhajwal Barian, Supwal Samba at odd night hours for pilferage purpose.

The investigation of the case is being conducted by SHO Police Station Samba Inspector Daljit Singh and Chowki Officer Supwal Deepika Jalotra under supervision of DySP Hqrs Samba Bhishm Dubey and Additional SP Samba Surinder Choudhary.

Senior Superintendent of Police Samba Benam Tosh said that all the accused involved in pilferage & breach of trust have been arrested and challan of the case would be produced in the court of law for judicial determination anytime soon.