Delhi police arrested three persons for selling fire extinguishers painted as oxygen cylinders. The accused are Ravi Sharma (40), Mohammad Abdul (38), and Shambhu Shah (30).
Following a complaint received from a local Mukesh Khanna, a raid was conducted in the Alipur area where over 500 empty fire extinguishers. Police seized 532 fire extinguisher iron gas cylinders of different sizes, 26 oxygen gas cylinder nozzles, two electric grinders used to remove the red paint of the cylinders, three silver color spray-paint cans, one black paint box, one paint-brush, one pipe-wrench, and Rs 49,500 cash were recovered from their possession.
Khana, an NGO run by Radha Vallabh Seva Sangha, which provides free oxygen cylinders to covid patients, has lodged a complaint with the Farsh Bazar police station. Khanna alleged that one oxygen cylinder distributer, Varsha Engineering at Apni Colony, Alipur, had sold him oxygen cylinders at Rs 5,500 per for 4. 5 liters. When he contacted the same distributor again and asked for more cylinders, the distributor demanded Rs 13,000 per 4. 5 liters cylinder, a senior police official said.
