An incident of oil painting theft from the Delhi- Panipat section of an IOCL channel was reported by the Indian Oil Corporation Ltd, Northern Region, said police
A 52- time-old man was arrested for allegedly stealing oil painting from the channel of Indian Oil Corporation Ltd( IOCL) in southwest Delhi’s Dwarka area, police said on Friday.
The indicted had dug up a portion of the land– slightly 40 metre down from the channel- from where he’d allegedly prize oil painting, and also cover it with fodder.
Deputy manager of police( Dwarka) Harsha Vardhan said that the indicted has been linked as Rakesh Kumar, a occupant of Pochanpur village.
Police said that he’s the proprietor of the plot of land that was dug up. An incident of oil painting theft from the Delhi- Panipat section of an IOCL channel was reported by the Indian Oil Corporation Ltd, Northern Region, said police.
“ IOCL reported that on September 29, they performed examination and it was set up that oil painting theft was likely be passing from the area of Pochanpur vill, ” said DCP Vardhan.
Police have arrested the land proprietor and the high suspects who stole the oil painting are still at large. Investigators are yet to disinter the entire nexus.
Police said that what and how the indicted did with the stolen oil painting will be caught on only after they’re arrested. still, it’s suspected that they vended it for financial earnings.
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The police have registered a case under colorful sections of the Petroleum and Minerals Channels( Acquisition of Right of stoner in Land) Act, 1962 and the Indian Penal Code, the DCP said.
A police officer apprehensive of the matter said that for the last many times, the IOCL has been installing high- pressure oil painting channels with detectors so that they can ascertain when and where the pressure drops.
This, police said, helps them contain and identify cases of oil painting theft. When police visited the spot, they set up a pile of fodder and when it was removed, it could be seen that a portion had been dug out in square shape.
It was further set up that the indicted had drilled into the IOCL channel, and also using a stopcock medium, a plastic pipe was fitted in the channel, the DCP said.
When the place where the channel was laid was shoveled , it was set up that a machine for rooting oil painting by drilling holes in the oil painting channel was installed at the spot, to which two plastic pipes were connected, police said.
further inquiry revealed that the pipe was laid in an underground lair dug by the indicted. Rakesh is being interrogated and sweats are being made to nab the whole group, Vardhan said. Instruments used in commission of crime have been recovered, said police.
