Petrol adulteration in Uttar Pradesh is a business and the mafia running it has no fear of the law. A CNN-IBN Special Investigation found that the area around the Mathura Oil Refinery is a hub for adulteration which begins as soon as oil tankers roll out of the refinery gates.
“This is our business and we have been in this for ages,” says a mafia leader. The Mathura refinery is one of the six owned by the Indian Oil Corporation.
The petrol adulteration mafia stalks the area around this refinery and both the local administration and law enforcement authorities look the other way. There is a reason for that: Mafia members allege that they regularly give bribes to officials.
"We are not scared of administration at all, they get their quota,” says the mafia leader. The CNN-IBN Special Investigation Team has on camera caught the mafia siphoning and adulterating petrol from an oil tanker just a few hundred metres away from the refinery.
When the CNN-IBN crew spotted near the refinery, goons on motorcycles chased us.
“As soon a truck comes out of the refinery, we take it directly to our store. In the store we swap the oil. We have setting an understanding with drivers. The trade is well organised and every one gets their cut. There is no confusion between the administration and us,” says the mafia leader.
Indian Oil Corporation officer S Manjunath was murdered in Lakhimpur Kheri last year after he warned a petrol pump against selling adulterated petrol.
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