Nashik: Police detain man for running illegal gas refilling centre
Nashik: The Nashik city police have detained a person operating an illegal gas refill centre on the Wadala-DGP Road.
Authorities also seized property worth over Rs1 lakh, including 4 domestic Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) cylinders, an electronic gas refilling machine, a gas regulator, and a weighing machine.
The central crime branch, led by inspector Anchal Mudgal, busted the operation. The crackdown followed instructions from police commissioner Sandeep Karnik to investigate illegal businesses within the city.
On Tuesday, while patrolling the Mumbai Naka, Indiranagar, and Upnagar areas, assistant police inspector Pravin Mali received a tip-off about the illicit refilling station. Police immediately raided the tin shed facility, finding two individuals refilling LPG from a domestic cylinder into an autorickshaw.
Last month, the crime branch unit 2 had raided an illegal gas refill centre in the Nashik Road area and seized 63 domestic gas cylinders. Three people were detained, besides seizure of gas cylinders and machinery worth over Rs2.5 lakh. In April, the city police had detained two people and recovered 13 gas cylinders, three motors, and three weighing machines, all worth Rs1.2 lakh. The illegal gas refill centre was in Shramik Nagar area of Satpur.
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