24,000-ltr furnace oil seized from illegal factory in Hisar

Tribune News Service

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Hisar, December 25

The Chief Minister’s flying squad raided an unauthorised oil factory on the Balsamand-Bhadra road in Hisar district and recovered 24,000 litre of furnace oil on Saturday.

CM’s flying squad Inspector Inder Singh said they got information about an illegal oil factory being operated near Aryanagar on the Balmasand-Bhadra road. A joint team of the CM’s flying squad, Food Supply Department, Excise and Taxation and Measurement Departments raided the factory operating under the name of Ganesh Enterprises on Friday evening. Naveen Kumar of Hisar is stated to be the owner of this unit. When asked for the factory licence, Naveen could not produce it.

Inder said the team recovered about 24,000 litre of furnace oil from five iron tanks kept in the factory. Besides, another tank built in the ground in the factory was also filled with oil. The team has taken three oil samples and sent it to the Panipat refinery for testing.

Notably, the petrol pump operators have raised the issue of the illicit sale of spurious biodiesel, which is reportedly made from furnace oil. With the skyrocketing diesel prices, the availability of spurious biodiesel at much cheaper rates in the market, especially in interiors of Hisar, has attracted the motorists who use it as fuel.

According to information, there are some unauthorised sale points of the biodiesel in the interiors of the district. There is also a godown in the Adampur region in the district, which supplies the biodiesel to various parts of the district, sources said. This biodiesel is reportedly around Rs 30 per litre cheaper that the diesel prices at the petrol pumps.