Food and Civil Supplies Dept steps on the gas: 60 lPG cylinders seized, 35 FIRs lodged
Delhi Government has cracked down on the illegal sale of lPG cylinders, seizing 60 lPG cylinders and lodging 35 FIRs against offenders. The Food and Civil Supplies Department on Monday raided 1,000 premises to check sale of underweight lPG cylinders, small size illegal cylinders and use of domestic lPG cylinders for commercial activities. This is the third raid conducted across the city, informed SS Yadav, Commissioner (Food & Supplies). In the last two months, thousands of premises were raided and 800 lPG cylinders seized and 95 FIRs have been lodged by the department.
“Several teams of Food and Supplies Department raided 53 lPG agencies and found irregularities like sale of underweight lPG cylinders, non-carrying of weighing machine with the delivery vehicle, use of uncertified weighing machine by the delivery boy and non-display of verification certificate for the weighing machine. Besides this, more than
350 premises were also raided to check the sale of illegal small size cylinders and use of domestic cylinders for commercial purposes. In total, 30 FIRs have been lodged against the culprits by the raiding teams and 60 illegal lPG have been seized,” said Yadav.