Rachna KhairaTribune News ServiceJalandhar, May 26The city police today raided the premises of an oil transport company and seized a large quantity of diesel allegedly stored illegally in an underground oil tank of 10,000-litre capacity on a vacant plot in the Hardeep Nagar area. “Though the prescribed limit of the storage tank or receptacle for storing a class B fuel, including diesel, should not exceed 1,000 litres, the owner has installed oil tank worth 10,000 litres capacity which is mainly used for commercial use by the filling stations. Ashok Sareen, vice-president of the union, stated that the tank of minimum capacity was provided by the filling station for storing the oil for their personal use. However, he could not give a satisfactory reply when told that no one could install an oil tank of 10,000 litres capacity for personal use and the diesel under permissible limit of 2,500 litres capacity has to be stored separately in 1000-litre tanks only. The police arrested Swaran Singh, owner of Lucky Oil Company and also the owner of the plot, under Section 7 of the Essential Commodity Act, 1955, for installing the tank illegally and also for installing the oil pumping machine.
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