Delhi: Three held for selling painted fire extinguishers as oxygen cylinders

The Delhi Police has arrested three persons who allegedly used to paint fire extinguishers as oxygen cylinders and sell them to needy people, officials said on Wednesday.

Police said the matter came to light Tuesday after a person named Mukesh Khanna, who runs Radha Vallabh Sewa Sangh NGO which serves free oxygen cylinders to Covid patients, filed a complaint at 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 litres.

When he contacted the same distributor again and asked for more cylinders, the distributor demanded Rs 13,000 for 4.5 litres cylinder, a senior police officer said.

On the complaint, a raiding team reached the location at Alipur where three people were found engaged in painting some gas cylinders in black colour.