Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 24:- Acting on the complaints of consumers regarding shortage of subsidized LPG Gas, Crime Branch Jammu today conducted a raid on four LPG dealers and suppliers in different parts of the city here and seized their records to unearth the black marketing racket in the city.
The four gas agencies which were raided by the sleuths of the Crime Branch included Shivangi Gas and Chenab Gas, Panjtirthi, Jammu, Jammu Gas and Chenab Trading Co. Ambphalla.
According to Crime Branch a team of over 15 sleuths including three Dy SPs and eight Inspectors raided the premises of the four LPG dealers under the Supervision of SSP Crime Branch Shakti Pathak.
Crime Branch has also registered FIR No. 1/2014 in this regard.
As per the FIR an information through a reliable source was received in Crime Branch, Jammu that some dealers and suppliers of cooking gas agencies in Jammu including Shivangi Gas and Chenab Gas, Panjtirthi, Jammu, Jammu Gas and Chenab Trading Co. Ambphalla have clandestinely maintained fake and fraudulent gas connections on fictitious and non-existent names, whereby gas obtained on subsidized rates from the Government is fraudulently shown issued to the fictitious persons in the records which actually is sold in black-market on non-subsidized rates, thus causing a huge loss to the State exchequer on account of misappropriation of subsidy amount.
The Crime Branch said the fraud is being committed in connivance with some monitoring agencies as the cost difference between commercial and non-commercial gas is quite substantial.
Crime Branch said from these revelations, it spells out that this huge racket is being run by the dealers and suppliers of LPG agencies operating in Jammu with the active connivance of officers and officials of the CAPD Department, who in furtherance of a criminal conspiracy have dishonestly and fraudulently prepared the fake and fictitious list of non-existent consumers in gross violation of the norms and the prescribed rules. This is being done in order to cause consequential monetary gains to themselves and substantial loss to the State exchequer, sources added.
It said the omissions and commissions on the part of the proprietors of these gas suppliers and dealers, officials of the CAPD Department and others involved in this racket, prima facie, constitute offences punishable U/S 406, 420, 467, 468, 471, 120-B RPC R/W Section 3/7 E.C Act and Section 5(2) P.C Act Svt. 2006. Accordingly, a formal case has been registered in P/S Crime Branch. However no arrest was made so far.
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