A joint raid has been conducted by the Andhra Pradesh police and the AP Legal Metrology department and Telangana police and controller of the legal metrology department have seized the 22 petrol station in Andhra Pradesh and 11 petrol stations seized in Telangana. One accused name, Sk Subhani Basha from him recovered about 08 Displays, 14 ICs (chips), 03 GBR cable’s, 01 Motherboard, one Hyundai i20 car from his possession
As a part of the eradication of Organized Crime, a special operating team from Cyberbad collected information about the installation of (I C) integrated chips which are programmed with manipulated software in petrol stations filling machines.
The chips were causing massive loss of rupees to the consumers by providing less petrol than the display on the filling machine (2 to3 percent less for every 1000 ml) police said.
If a consumer purchases 1ltr of petrol the consumer will get 0.97 ltr of petrol by this petrol station owner will earn more money by cheating consumers.
The culprit Subahani basha is a resident of West Godavari district and works as a petrol station pump mechanic in the West and East Godavari districts, In Andhra Pradesh basha learned the work of fule stations pump mechanism and later become an expert in that field.
The accused is an expert in the installing of manipulated chips in Fuel display Machines which delivers less petrol than the actual display on board or meter of display machine.
accused used to purchase the manipulated chips and the software from Shibu Thomas and jo joseph from Mumbai and started programming the chips and installing it in different fule station in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana with the help of his links, at the prize of 80,000 to 1,20,000 per each programmed chips.
Accused purchase manipulated chips and software and started programming and installing the same in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana State’s through a different broker in connivance with the petrol station owners.
The culprit used to install the manipulated chips only in one fuel pump out of two. For filling fuel in vehicles, manipulated pumps were used to fill in cans, plastic bottles, regular pumps were used which did not have controlled chips so that the consumer does not know about the cheating said the police.
All over the country, new software was installed in all fuel stations In 2018, This gang started installing manipulated chips since 2019. For almost more than 1 year, they were indulging in this cheating. today and Yesterday, joint raids were undertaken by Cyberabad Police and Telangana Legal Metrology officials in TS.
