Vadodara: The prevention of crime branch (PCB) has busted a racket of stealing crude oil from a pipeline laid by the ONGC and arrested two men on Saturday. The accused duo had been stealing the oil from a trunk pipeline near Raipura village on the outskirts of the city.
According to the police, a PCB sleuth had received information that Amarsinh Rathod, who was earlier arrested in crude oil thefts, had stolen oil from a pipeline and the tankers were being offloaded in a transport firm compound near Ranoli bridge on Saturday. The cops raided the spot and nabbed Shashikant Yadav, who owns the transport firm, and Hanuman Vanzara.