Petrol adulteration racket busted in Bengal

Kolkata May 5 (IANS) A racket involving the supply of a low-priced petroleum products has been busted in West Bengal s Alipurduar district by CID officials and two persons have been arrested the agency said on Saturday.

"Acting on a tip-off a CID team conducted a raid on Friday night at a petrol pump at Birpara in Alipurduar district while a tanker was unloading an industrial solvent low priced petroleum product into an underground reservoir of a petrol pump " an agency official said.

"During raid one tanker having 7 000 litres of industrial solvent was seized. Two persons were arrested namely Bijoy Das driver of the truck and licence holder Asish Mittal s brother Bikash Mittal who was overseeing the transfer " official said.

A case has been lodged at Birpara police station official added.

--IANS
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