Three held for illegal storage of black oil in godown near Ponneri
The Hindu
Tamil Nadu Police arrests three for unauthorized black oil storage, ongoing investigation with government oil companies.
Officers of the Civil Supplies CID of the Tamil Nadu Police on Thursday arrested three persons for the unauthorised storage of black oil, a petroleum by-product, at a godown near Ponneri.
Inspector General of Police K. Joshi Nirmal Kumar, of the Civil Supplies CID, constituted a team to crack down on hoarding and smuggling of essential commodities. Acting on confidential information, the team uncovered an oil operation at S.P. Nagar, Vichoor Village, Tiruvallur, and arrested A. Sakthivel, A. Bhaskar, and B. Palaniswami on Thursday.
Further investigation revealed that they had 4.38 lakh litres of black oil stored in the godown, which is owned by N. Ramesh and R. Anitha, Shree Sathya Sai Lubricants, Coimbatore. The police have filed a case against them and launched a search for the duo.
“The investigation, with the assistance of government oil companies, is ongoing,” said Mr. Joshi Nirmal Kumar.
Taking serious note of the BJP advertisements in the newspapers as well as the allegations of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Bhopal on Thursday alleging that the Congress government in Karnataka was including Muslims in Other Backward Classes (OBC) to give reservations to Muslims on religious grounds and meted out injustice to the vast majority of the Backward Communities, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said that reservations to Muslims was not a new thing as the community had been enjoying their reservations as its Constitutional rights for the last 30 years.