Four individuals have been arrested in Lucknow on Tuesday for their alleged involvement in black marketing of oxygen cylinders in two separate instances, police mentioned.
Acting on a tip off, police arrested the accused, Vishnu and Vikas, for unlawful buying and selling of cylinders at their agency- Balaji Jeevan Dayani- n Kalyanpur locality in the Gudamba space, Police Commissioner DK Thakur informed PTI.
Police recovered 87 empty oxygen cylinders and Rs 1 lakh from their possession, the officer mentioned, including the accused have confessed to the crime.
In the second case, two men-Ikram Ali and Ayush Shukla-were arrested from Gomti Nagar space and 10 crammed jumbo oxygen cylinders and eight empty cylinders have been seized.