Daijiworld Media Network - Beltangady (SP)

Beltangady, Jun 12:  After a racket involved with rigging of a hole into the Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd (MRPL) pipeline through which diesel is being pumped from Mangalore to Bangalore was unearthed recently, the MRPL filed a complaint with the policemen here, alleging that about 30 kilo litres of diesel had been siphoned off from their pipeline. The policemen had found the pump and other equipments at the site in the forest region of Dondole near here.

In this connection, the policemen have arrested four persons, Girish, Sandeep, Radhakrishna and Naresh, all from Dondole near Dharmastala. All of them were produced before the court.

In a clandestine operation, a few people who had formed a gang were pumping out diesel flowing through the pipeline of MRPL, by inserting a 20-feet pipe into the pipeline through the earth and using a high-power pump to suck the diesel. The policemen suspect, that some one from the MRPL was alerting the racket about the timing of the pumping operation, to enable them to take out diesel at that time.

The policemen continue to concentrate their investigation on the people to whom this diesel was sold. Diesel is being sold through petrol bunks, which get petrol and diesel directly from the major oil companies. The possibility of retail sale of such a huge quantity of diesel is remote.

Senior police officials have visited Beltangady to guide the investigation.