Fuel prices skyrocket in Chennai. Petrol thieves have a field day.

KEY POINTS : 

• With fuel prices going north, Chennai has started seeing a rise in fuel theft cases, especially in apartment complexes. Petrol was being sold at ₹100.75 and diesel at 93.91 on Tuesday morning.
• With fuel prices skyrocketing, residents of Chennai are now witnessing a worrying trend of fuel theft as miscreants siphoning off petrol from the parked vehicles.

With gas fees skyrocketing, residents of Chennai are now witnessing a stressful fashion of fuel robbery as criminals siphoning off petrol from the parked motors, Tamil language newspaper Dina Thanthi said on Tuesday.

 Petrol rate has touched ₹one hundred.75 and diesel turned into selling for ₹ninety three. Ninety-one on Tuesday morning. Fuel expenses have been not revised on Tuesday, though petrol won ₹35 paise on Monday whilst diesel charge remained intact.

With a hike nearly every day to the already hovering gas fees, petrol thieves have a field day specifically focused on condominium buildings wherein many two-wheelers are parked at the same spot.

Recently, residents of an apartment complicated at Ambattur determined that the gas tanks of -wheelers have been empty all of a surprise. 

The residents association scanned CCTV footage and found a teenager stealing petrol from all the two-wheelers on the parking lot around 3 am. However, the affiliation has now not filed any police complaint as but.

In most of those fuel robbery cases, people keep away from registering police court cases close by stations considering the prolonged criminal tactics worried, the newspaper cited. With gasoline thefts at the upward push, humans have advised the police to tighten their vigil and increase night patrol.

Meanwhile, principal political events in the country are staging protests in opposition to the gas rate hike. Opposition parties condemned nation and central authorities for no longer lowering their tax element at the gas rate, burdening the general public already strained by the Covid-19 related financial slowdown.

Dinamalar suggested that DMDK treasurer Premalatha Vijayakanth rode a bicycle in front of the Chennai collector’s workplace in protest because the party organised demonstrations throughout the kingdom on Sunday.

 Addressing the protest, Premalatha Vijayakanth said that people’s livelihood was at stake because of the phenomenal hike in petrol and diesel charges.