Two arrested for stealing LPG cylinders in Pimpri-Chinchwad

Two workers of a gas agency were arrested for stealing liquified petroleum gas (LPG) cylinders used for cooking from an agency to allegedly sell it in the black market on Tuesday evening.

The two arrested were identified as Chandraprakash Vikramsingh Thakur (19) and Manoj Mahavir Bhardwaj (29), both residents of Prabhatnagar in Pimple Gurav and natives of different districts of Uttar Pradesh.

The two men work as delivery executives in a gas agency in Pimpri-Chinchwad and have access to a tempo used for cylinder delivery.

The two deliberately failed to return some cylinders to the agency and used those cylinders to steal cooking gas from the filled cylinders that the agency entrusted them with for delivery to their customers.