Police in UP seize stolen truck with LPG cylinders, 7 held

Less than a week after a truck carrying LPG cylinders was stolen from a Bharat Petroleum plant in Karari in Jhansi district of Uttar Pradesh, police have recovered the vehicle and arrested seven persons.

According to police, the truck with registration number UP 93 BT 3341 and loaded with 524 LPG cylinders — 389 filled and 135 empty — was dispatched from the Karari plant for Kanpur Dehat ahead of Holi. “The driver had parked the vehicle outside the plant on March 2 before leaving, after which unidentified persons stole it in the early hours of March 6,” said a police officer.

As the police began to investigate, they tracked down the vehicle to the Sipri Bazar area in Jhansi. “A police team, along with SWAT and surveillance teams, intercepted the truck near a gas godown on Gwalior Road around 2.42 am on March 11. Four suspects were arrested after a brief encounter,” said a police officer, adding they had sold the cylinders in black through a gas agency.