Working on a tip-off city police have raided on five godowns of soft drinks across the Bokaro Steel City and seized huge quantity of expired cold drinks, fruit Juice and mineral water bottles which was apparently stocked for sale.
Police also raided a godown at Azadnagar and confiscated 5,000 litres of kerosene oil.
The blue kerosene is meant only for public distribution system and can be sold only through the ration depots. But the incident clearly pointed towards the pilfering of kerosene meant for Government ration depots into private hands, sources said.
Few peoples are involved in to making kerosene oil into adulterated turpentine oil, sources said.
They are making adulterated turpentine oil by chemically treating kerosene, sources said adding they were used to first de-colour kerosene and then mix it with some yellow substance to give it the look of turpentine oil, which is used for thinning paints and as a solvent to make furniture wax for polishing wooden furniture.
“It is also used in many different cleaning products due to its antiseptic properties. Turpentine oil is a little costlier than kerosene”, sources added.