In a joint operation, teams of the district drug controller department and Gurugram police, arrested three men from Gurugram’s Aklimpur village for allegedly smuggling oxygen cylinders to sell them in black market at higher rates in Gurugram, the police said on Wednesday.
Teams have receovered 260 oxygen cylinders, (250 small cylinders and 10 big cylinders) and a canter used for smuggling, from the trio. The arrested men have been identified as Vikas Kumar (32), a resident of Karnal at present residing in Gurugram’s Unitech Sector-70, Shiv Kumar (33) from Karnal and Prabhat Kumar (31) from Thane, West Maharashtra.
Subhash Boken, spokesperson of the Gurugram police said that on Tuesday, they received a tip-off about the consignment that the culprits would come Gurugram to sell oxygen cylinders at a high rate. “On this, a trap was laid near the Aklimpur village in Gurugram and a suspicious canter bearing Maharashtra number was intercepted on searching the canter, we recovered 260 oxygen cylinders,” Boken said.