Two arrested, two booked for illegal LPG sale; 46 cylinders seized
The Pune police on Thursday arrested two persons and booked two others for selling cooking gas cylinders in the black market during lockdown. The police sent a decoy customer based on a tip-off and seized 46 gas cylinders.
The two arrested men have been identified as Narendra Raghuvirsingh Thakur, 31 and Vijay Jeevan Mudliar, 46, both residents of Dapodi, according to police sub-inspector Amol Bhosale who is the complainant in the case.
“We got information from the seniors to scour the Khadki region for such people. We have arrested them on Thursday and are interrogating them. Currently there is no other agency on our radar,” said PSI Bhosale of Khadki police station who posed as a customer seeking a cylinder.
