The Ahmedabad rural police busted a scam at a hotel on Viramgam-Malvan road for stealing LPG cooking gas from tankers transporting gas from a bottling plant.

Ahmedabad rural police Special Operations Group (SOG) Police Inspector K J Chaudhary and his staff received a tip-off that Devaram Chaudhary, owner of Ramdev Hotel near Dolatpura-Viramgam Highway was involved in illegal activities involving LPG gas tankers.

Information was received that Devaram harboured LPG gas tankers at his hotel, tampering with the seals of the tankers, and illegally filling commercial gas cylinders from them and selling them.

Based on the tip-off, the police raided the location and found three tankers with tampered seals and gas cylinders being filled from them. Additionally, 36 gas cylinders were found in a loading rickshaw.

It was revealed that Devaram was paying ₹500 per gas cylinder to the driver of the gas tanker.