Excelsior Correspondent
SAMBA, Nov 22: Samba police has arrested third accused involved in LPG gas pilferage case recently registered at Police Station (PS) Samba through Police Post (pp) Supwal.
The third accused arrested incase FIR No.274/2023 U/S 3/7 EC Act, 406, 409, 120-B, 285, 413 IPC has been identified as Dinesh Kumar, son of Girdhari Lal of Moutliyan Kalan Utterbehni, district Samba.
Earlier, on the intervening night of 15th and 16th of November 2023, police had arrested two accused red-handed while extracting gas from two Indane Gas Tankers and filling it in the commercial cylinders at midnight at village Chhajwal Barian. Now the third accused has also been arrested. However, two accused drivers who had fled from the spot on observing the movement of raiding police party are still on the run and police is conducting raids to arrest them. Investigation is underway and some more suspects are being questioned in the case.
Initial investigation revealed that the same pilferage of gas from Indane gas tankers had been committed for the last over four months at the same place during midnight hours. The Indane gas tankers coming from Punjab side to Indane LPG Bottling Plant, Bari Brahmana, Samba used to come to this particular place i.e Chhajwal Barian, Supwal Samba at odd night hours for pilferage purpose.
The investigation of the case is being conducted by SHO Police Station, Samba, Inspector Daljit Singh and Chowki Officer, Supwal, Deepika Jalotra under the supervision of DySP Headquarters, Samba and Additional SP Samba, Surinder Choudhary.
Senior Superintendent of Police Samba, Benam Tosh said that all the accused involved in the case would be arrested at the earliest and police is conducting raids at suspected places to nab them.
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