Petrol Racket suspect goes underground

Earlier in the morning, Additional Sessions Judge M N Patale granted anticipatory bail to three other suspected racketeers including K C Akkalkotkar who owns the Scooter Service Station petrol pump at Mhamadevi Chowk on Pune-Solapur Road, his son Amjad Akkalkotkar and Ahmed Khan’s son Darvesh, the tanker which was seized while being deloaded at Akkalkotkar’s petrol pump.

While praying for extending the police custody for Ahmed Khan, pump manager Abid Shaikh and tanker driver Nivas Yadav for four days, Sub inspector Ram Jadhav from crime branch revealed that he himself and Sub inspector Shrirang Langhe’s efforts to track down the transport agent had failed yesterday.He said that the team of crime branch sleuths from Pune had gone to Ghatkopar (East) only to find that the transport agent who issued the invoice for rexin which was being supplied as spurious fuel to K C Akkalkotkar’s petrol pump at Mhamadevi Chowk, had already disappeared along with his family members.

Some officials from the head office of a petro-chemical industry, from where the rexin was obtained, have disclosed during the course of interrogation that their company had issued the stock of rexin in the name of a Rajasthan-based industry which has a licence to purchase the chemical.