More Than 500 Filled LPG Cylinders worth 17 Lakh Stolen in UP's Jhansi Amid Holi Celebration

Jhansi: It may sound like a filmy scene but this incident really happened in Jhansi. A truck loaded with 524 filled LPG gas cylinders which was worth more than Rs 17 lakh went missing on Friday in Jhansi in a suspected theft case, police said.

Who is the owner of the truck?

Sipri Bazar Station House Officer(SHO) Jayaprakash Chaube said the truck, which went missing was owned by Neeraj Kumar Agrawal, was attached to the Bharat Petroleum Karari depot.

As per Neeraj, who is the truck owner, and resident of New Roy Ganj, Sipri Bazar, his trucks have been hired by Bharat Petroleum to transport refilled LPG cylinders from its plant at Karari on Gwalior road to different destinations

According to a complaint lodged, one of the trucks was loaded with 524 cylinders on March 2 for delivery to Kanpur Dehat.

When did the incident happen?

On March 2, the driver, Rajkumar, had loaded 524 filled gas cylinders in the truck and parked it outside the Karari depot, according to police.

After the Holi festivities, as per the driver, when he returned on March 6 the truck was missing.

The police official said that during a search, the truck was later traced on March 7 at a deserted spot near Paricha Thermal Power Plant on Kanpur Road and all cylinders were missing. And the GPS device of the truck was also broken.

According to station officer of  Sipri Bazar police station Jai Prakash Chaubey, police were investigating the matter by tracing various CCTV footage and through surveillance, though no trace of the cylinders was found.