A team of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) seized four covered vans containing 614 cylinders with mobile refuelling stations installed in those in illegal and unsafe ways from Chattogram's Satkania in an operation conducted on Sunday.
"Dishonest businessmen set up unlicensed and illegal mobile CNG refuelling stations in covered vans in Keranihat-Bandarban road under Satkania police station in Chattogram district. From there, liquid gas was being sold to CNG-powered auto rickshaws, which is dangerous and unsafe," said Rab-7 Assistant Director (Media) Nurul Absar.
He said the group mainly supplies fuel directly to cars and also stores gas from the main gas line, which is then sold illegally at a high price in Chattogram's Satkania, Lohagara, Banshkhali, and various areas of Cox's Bazar.
The elite force also detained three persons--Md Azizul Haque, 45, Md Alamgir, 40, and Humayun Kabir, 27, and the seized goods and the arrestees have been handed over to Lohagara police station, the RAB official informed.
The cylinders were attached to the vans, with each van containing 153 cylinders on average, according to Absar. "But they do not have any approval from the Department of Explosives. The cylinders are also very old and have never been tested for safety and performance.
