Hisar petrol pumps to remain shut on Thursday in protest against loot

HISAR: Petrol pump owners’ association in Hisar has announced it would keep the all the fuel station shut on Thursday to protest against the police failure to protect them from criminals. On Sunday, three man had looted Rs 5.5 lakh from Rahul Gupta, the owner of a petrol pump in Chaudhariwas village. The latest incident had come exactly two years after an identical crime in which Rs 5.33 lakh was looted from the same fuel station owner at the same spot. Both the cases remain unsolved.
The association has said that all petrol pumps across Hisar district will remain shut on Thursday if the police failed to crack the case and recover the money.

District pump owners body held a meeting under the chairmanship of state president of fuel station owners’ association Dinesh Goyal, district president Rajkumar Salemgarh, senior vice-president Sushil Pawan Goyal and secretary Ajay Kharinta. Unanimous decision was taken in the meeting that if the looted amount was not recovered by February 13, then all petrol pumps of the district will be on strike on February 14 for 24 hours from 6 am.

At the same time, association has appealed to the common people to fill petrol and diesel in their vehicles as per their requirement as the one-day strike turn into indefinitely one if police failed to acted. It also said that if a pump dealer was caught supplying oil in the vehicles during the strike, then he too would be fined.