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Police person arrested 7 men aft an brushwood and recovered much than 500 LPG cylinders stolen during the Holi festivities successful Jhansi, an authoritative said connected Wednesday (March 11, 2026).
Following a tip-off, the constabulary arrested Javed, Aamir, Ritik, Sumit, Shubhankar, Abhishek and Surendra, each residents of Jhansi, connected aboriginal Wednesday (March 11, 2026) adjacent a state warehouse connected the Gwalior Road, Senior Superintendent of Police B.B.G.T.S Murthy said.
LPG situation updates connected March 11, 2026
The constabulary besides recovered ₹11.10 lakh successful currency and ₹83,820 believed to beryllium proceeds from the merchantability of cylinders, from their possession, helium said.
According to the police, the motortruck driver, Rajkumar, had parked the conveyance loaded with 524 filled LPG cylinders extracurricular the Bharat Petroleum depot successful the Sipri Bazar country connected March 2 earlier leaving for his location to observe Holi.
When helium returned connected March 6, the motortruck was missing, pursuing which the owner, Neeraj Agrawal, lodged a complaint.
The motortruck was aboriginal recovered abandoned successful the Baragaon area, with its damaged GPS, constabulary said, adding that aggregate teams were formed to hint the stolen cylinders.
During interrogation, constabulary recovered that Javed and Ritik, erstwhile motortruck drivers associated with the state plant, had hatched the program to bargain the cylinders and gain money.
The accused had allegedly struck a woody worthy ₹13 lakh with a state bureau successful Samthar to merchantability the cylinders.
Acting connected the accusation provided by the arrested accused, constabulary recovered each 524 stolen cylinders, including 389 filled and 135 bare ones, from the state agency.
Officials said a monetary quality of astir ₹60,000-70,000 betwixt the accused and the motortruck proprietor has besides travel to airy and is being probed.
A lawsuit has been registered nether the applicable sections of the BNS, the Arms Act and the Motor Vehicles Act, and each the accused person been sent to jail, constabulary said.
