Three persons have been arrested for a bid to steal oil from a petroleum company’s oil pipeline. Shah Latif Town police has filed a case on the complaint of the security in-charge of the pipeline in Pir Sarhandi Goth.
The police had informed the petroleum company about suspected activity in the vicinity. “There were footprints and digging. When the pipeline was checked, there was a vacant plot adjacent to it,” according to the complaint.
“A tunnel of 20 feet length was dug at six feet’s depth upto our company’s pipeline. The accused wanted to steal furnace oil from the pipeline through the tunnel,” according to the FIR.
