Navi Mumbai: The Navi Mumbai Crime Branch Team has damaged the diesel smuggling racket in the free sea by capturing five men accused and has confiscated 21,470 liters of diesel stored by them in the compartment hidden in two ships pull.
The police have even confiscated the 6.85 lakh RS cash they get after being sold illegally 9300 liters of diesel.
Also, two Tug ships worth Rs 12 Lakh, are used for diesel storage purchased illegally.
The people who were arrested were Salim Shaikh (50) who lived in Ghatkopar, Asif Waliyani (46) living in Mazgaon and three residents of the Pena in Raigad were identified as Pravin up (34), Vithal Devkate (19) and Datta Devkate (24), Both siblings (24), both.
Police Commissioner Bipin Kumar Singh told the five men defendants used to buy diesel from members of the crew on foreign commercial vessels that navigate in the high sea, for Rs 60 per liter and sell fuel to the owner of a fishing vessel for Rs 73 or RS 75 per liter and get big advantages.
Because, Diesel is being sold at a gas station for Rs 95 per liter, even buyers save money.
When five men accused of selling Diesel without getting a mandatory license from the Ministry of Petroleum and Gas and has led to the government’s loss to the government, they have been ordered at the NRI Coastal Police Station below the Section 285 IPC for negligent behavior in connection with API or flammable material together With the Essential Commodity Act, Spirit Motor and High-Speed ​​Diesel Law, Oil Products (Maintenance of Production, Storage and Supply), 1999 and Petroleum Law.
“The crime branch officer, probe,” DCP Crime Surezed to receive a tip from smuggling diesel in the high sea.
Therefore, he took two crime-1 branch unit officers and with the fighting control team from Mumbai, the troops set out in a quick boat from the Gateway of India to look for diesel smugglers on Thursday night.
When the squad reached Karanjade Creek in Uran, they saw two stable delay ships in the middle of the river.
The speed boat of the police team approached them and found five men on two delay ships, where they found two hidden compartments where the large amount of diesel smuggled was stored.
DCP Mengde calls the Crime Branch Unit-3 team and the Uran police to the place.
The five men were detained and they revealed that they bought a diesel from the crew members who navigated in the high seas, at cheaper prices compared to the market level.
They claimed to have sold, 9300 liters of diesel for Rs 75 per liter for various fishery trawlers, after buying diesel illegally for Rs 60 per liter.
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