115 cylinders seized; he was allegedly selling them to slumdwellers
The police team with the recovered cylinders
“We had deployed a dedicated team to investigate the matter as there were two complaints before this incident. We started checking the CCTV footage of the gas agency from where it was stolen and did a technical analysis of the same. During this, we traced a suspect to Takka Village, Panvel. When cops picked him up for investigation, he confessed to stealing the tempo with the cylinders,” said DCP (zone 1), Suresh Mengde.
The suspect was identified as Shreeram Bishnoi, hailing from Rajasthan. Bishnoi had worked previously in a gas agency and knew that many of the agencies keep the LPG-filled cylinders outside their offices without security. “He did recce of the spots before stealing, and we have recovered 115 cylinders out of which, 93 are domestic and 22 are commercial cylinders. According to primary information, he sold the cylinders in the slums,” said senior inspector Shyam Shinde of Nerul police station.
The arrest of Bishnoi has helped Nerul police in solving three cases registered in their own police station, and one at APMC police station.
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