Delhi police seize 610 LPG cylinders, bust hoarding racket in Mundka

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 A policeman monitoring organisation  of LPG cylinders astatine  a state  depot successful  New Delhi connected  March 13.

Under watch: A policeman monitoring organisation of LPG cylinders astatine a state depot successful New Delhi connected March 13. | Photo Credit: Shashi Shekhar Kashyap

Amid concerns among residents of the metropolis astir the shortage of liquefied petroleum state (LPG) owed to the struggle successful West Asia, the Delhi police’s Crime Branch connected Monday busted an LPG cylinder hoarding racket operating from a godown successful outer Delhi’s Mundka area.

As portion of its ongoing crackdown connected hoarding and achromatic marketing, the Crime Branch’s Anti-Extortion and Kidnapping Cell conducted a raid connected the godown of Guruji Indane Gas Service and seized 610 commercialized LPG cylinders of antithetic firms specified arsenic Indane, Bharat Gas, and Hindustan Petroleum.

“The proprietor is an authorised distributor, but storing cylinders of antithetic companies is simply a wide usurpation of the LPG (Regulation of Supply and Distribution) Order and provisions of the Essential Commodities Act, 1955,” DCP (Crime-I) Sanjeev Kumar Yadav said.

Published - March 17, 2026 12:56 americium IST

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