MUMBAI: The supervisor of an LPG company used to be arrested for allegedly misusing data of non-existent shoppers to get cylinders and promoting them within the black marketplace.
The accused, Kohildas Nadar (36) of Vijay Gas Agency at Sion-Koliwada, used data of about three,000 shoppers to fill up cylinders and later provided these illegally to eating places and motels, mentioned crime branch officials. The company booked cylinders with a supplier of Hindustan Petroleum by claiming that these were required by shoppers that existed 3 years ago. Some of the former shoppers relocated and a couple of died, mentioned the police.
While a bona fide buyer pays Rs 678 for a gasoline cylinder, Nadar sold it to industrial establishments for a minimum of Rs 1,200. So, he made a minimum of Rs 500 on each cylinder provided fraudulently. "He made up to Rs 20,000 a day. And, over the last three years, he made at least Rs 2.2 crore in this way," mentioned a police officer. "Names of customers that no longer existed had not been deleted in the agency's records."
On a tip-off, deputy commissioner (crime) Dilip Sawant supervised a staff of assistant commissioner Netaji Bhopale, inspector Sanjay Nikhumbe, sub-inspectors Mohsin Pathan, Navnath Ugade and Rajendra Bagal who raided the company and found the company had no longer updated the supplier about over 50% of customer data. "The accused says the agency got stocks by showing requirement of these 3,000 non-existent, bogus customers," mentioned Sawant.
The police are probing the role of the company proprietor and inquire with the supplier corporate.
The accused, Kohildas Nadar (36) of Vijay Gas Agency at Sion-Koliwada, used data of about three,000 shoppers to fill up cylinders and later provided these illegally to eating places and motels, mentioned crime branch officials. The company booked cylinders with a supplier of Hindustan Petroleum by claiming that these were required by shoppers that existed 3 years ago. Some of the former shoppers relocated and a couple of died, mentioned the police.
While a bona fide buyer pays Rs 678 for a gasoline cylinder, Nadar sold it to industrial establishments for a minimum of Rs 1,200. So, he made a minimum of Rs 500 on each cylinder provided fraudulently. "He made up to Rs 20,000 a day. And, over the last three years, he made at least Rs 2.2 crore in this way," mentioned a police officer. "Names of customers that no longer existed had not been deleted in the agency's records."
On a tip-off, deputy commissioner (crime) Dilip Sawant supervised a staff of assistant commissioner Netaji Bhopale, inspector Sanjay Nikhumbe, sub-inspectors Mohsin Pathan, Navnath Ugade and Rajendra Bagal who raided the company and found the company had no longer updated the supplier about over 50% of customer data. "The accused says the agency got stocks by showing requirement of these 3,000 non-existent, bogus customers," mentioned Sawant.
The police are probing the role of the company proprietor and inquire with the supplier corporate.
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