The crime branch of Bhopal police have nabbed a person involved in providing software to control petrol supply in fuel dispensers at the petrol pumps on Friday in the State Capital.
Acting on a tip-off regarding a person roaming suspiciously, the crime branch Bhopal acted swiftly and detained the person. When the detainee was questioned regarding the goods recovered from his possession he misled the police as the goods were only electronic gadgets and the police were suspecting that the gadgets have been stolen but later in the investigation the police were shocked to find that the electronic goods were used to control amount of petrol dispensed at petrol pumps without alerting the reading of the fuel dispensers.
Addl SP Crime Shailendra Singh Chouhan said that the accuses Pramod alias Pinku Prajapati (27) of Anuppur was nabbed and in the investigation he confessed that he used to provide petrol pumps with software which could help in controlling the petrol supply.
The accused has confessed to have installed the software in four districts Shajapur, Ratlam, Neemuch and Mandsaur but the petrol pumps in the city are yet to be identified which would be raided in the later investigation, he added.
After the installation of the software set amount of petrol and diesel used to be dispensed and the worker at the fuel station would control the machine. Those consumers were targeted who were not frequent visitors and long distance vehicles. For every installation he used to charge Rs 10,000 to Rs 15,000.
On the confirmation of the accused petrol pump at Akodia Shajapur Shanti Prateek Filling Center was raided and the software was found installed.
The accused has worked with the l & T Company as service manager which provides the petrol filling machines to the petrol pump. He has worked for the company for around 7 months. The accused has also worked for Gilbarco Company. Around 8 months ago the accused left the job to make fast money by installing software.
Accused met Mukesh of Indore who told him that by selling and installing software he could earn lakhs of rupees. The software was sold at around Rs5 lakh to Rs10 lakh to the petrol pump owners while the accused would purchase the software at around Rs1 lakh.