Four held for selling oxygen cylinders for `90K, possessing them illegally in G’gram

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Four held for selling oxygen cylinders for `90K, possessing them illegally in G’gram

Saturday, 24 April 2021 | Parvesh Sharma | Gurugram

A joint team of Chief Minister’s flying squad, crime branch Sector-40 and drugs control department have arrested four persons for selling and illegally possessing 9 oxygen cylinders without a valid licence on Friday.

The investigation found that these cylinders valued at Rs 12,000 to Rs 14,000 were being sold for as high as Rs 90,000 per cylinder in black market. Those arrested were identified as Bhupender Yadav of Jind who was the kingpin.

His assistants were Rajesh of Mahendergarh, Satyam of Bihar and Dharmender of Rajasthan.

"Following a secret information about black marketing of oxygen cylinders, we had prepared police personnel as a decoy customer, who had contacted the miscreants who asked him to meet them in Sector-38-39. There the accused had fixed a deal for a 48 kg cylinder Rs 90,000. Later the decoy customer signalled to the raiding team who overpowered the three culprits along with one cylinder and Maruti Breeza car from the spot," Subhash Boken, spokesperson of the Gurugram police said.

Boken further said that on their disclosure the police arrested the kingpin of the gang from flat no 101-102, Awas Society in Sector-39 and recovered 8 oxygen cylinders from his possession. "During questioning the accused disclosed before the police they have established a firm 'Purani Health Care Solution' at Awas society. They know that there was a huge demand of oxygen cylinders in the market due to Covid-19. So they started black market of cylinders. On Thursday they had sold one cylinder in Rs 70,000," Boken said.

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