Summary:
However, Shaik took about Rs 15 lakh he got from diesel sale and became incommunicado with other gang members. The money was also used for digging a tunnel.Once the site was ready for a purported scrap godown and tunnel work was finished, Shaik took measurements of the pipeline. “He used his contacts and got the metal clamp along with a valve prepared in the Old City. The gang members claimed Chand Shaik was an expert in pilferage and he used to observe when the fuel transfer was happening by pressing his ear to the pipeline and carry out drilling work only when the supply was off. One of the arrested accused, B Srinivasulu, had invested about Rs 15 lakh to lease the plot and construct a metal sheet fence around it with a small shed inside..