New Delhi: Six members of a gang have been arrested for allegedly stealing an enormous amount of aviation oil from the pipelines of an oil and gasoline firm and promoting it in numerous locations throughout the nationwide capital, police mentioned on Sunday.

The accused, recognized as Sanjay Dhawan, Mukesh Kumar, Samay Pal, Avlesh, Himanshu and Sanjay, had been arrested by a Crime Department staff of the Delhi Police, they mentioned.

Police mentioned that a probe was initiated after they acquired a number of complaints a few gang concerned in theft of petrol, diesel and aviation oil from the availability pipelines of an oil and gasoline firm within the space of Delhi and NCR.

Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime) Bhisham Singh mentioned, “The arrests had been made after our staff acquired data on Saturday that 5 members of the gang, concerned in theft of aviation oil from the pipelines of oil and gasoline firm, had been coming within the space of Nihal Vihar to promote the stolen oil in a tanker accompanied by a automobile. A entice was laid and when the autos entered right into a godown located in Nilothi, Nihal Vihar, our staff apprehended all of the six members of the gang.”

The officer mentioned Pal and Kumar have been concerned within the oil theft for a couple of and a half years, and had been nicely conscious of the places of the availability pipelines of the oil and gasoline firm.

First, they recognized an space the place a tanker can attain simply close to a pipeline ideally in a area of full grown crop to minimise visibility from public in addition to safety individuals of the corporate and execute their operations at night time, the DCP mentioned elaborating on the modus operandi of the gang.

Different gang members — Avlesh and Himanshu — would dig a gap over the chosen pipeline and match a valve on it with the assistance of a clamp and later join the pipeline to a tanker. After filling the tanker with oil, they’d shut the valve and canopy the opening with soil whereas different gang members saved a watch, he added.

Later, they used to promote the oil at numerous locations in Delhi to individuals who additional bought it in retail illegally to varied customers, the officer mentioned.

Police claimed to have seized the tanker used for transportation of stolen aviation oil and recovered 1,100 liters of oil together with devices used for making holes in pipelines, a automobile utilized in fee of the crime, Rs 60,000 money, a generator and an oil pipe from the possession of the gang members.