Gang involved in stealing fuel from petrol pumps busted, 6 held

The Punjab police today arrested six people and with it, claimed to have busted an interstate gang involved in stealing fuel from petrol pumps.

Acting on a tip-off, a team of police officials arrested Ranjit Singh, Partap Singh and Rajinder Singh along with two trucks from near Urapur, but the gang's leader Baba Balwinder Singh and his son Narinder Singh managed to escape from the sport in a third truck, they said.

During interrogation, the accused confessed to have stolen diesel from the Aur petrol pump and they were planning to seal fuel from a petrol pump located on Machhiwara-Alamgir road. All the accused hailed from Gurdaspur district of the state, a police official said.

The accused further confessed to have stolen diesel from around 11 petrol pumps located in Taran Tran, Fatehgarh Churian, Machhiwara, Amritsar, Batala, Jammu area, Rainan, and some pumps located in Bengal, Assam and Haryana states, the police said.

They used to sell the stolen diesel to some roadside eatery owners on Phillaur GT road. Police raided the said roadside eateries and nabbed Ashok, Ranjit and Raj Kishore and seized 500 litres of stolen petroleum products from them, the police said.