Reported by chemicals.economictimes.indiatimes.com
A police crackdown near Surat has exposed how industrial chemicals moving by road can become easy targets for organised theft, especially when insiders are part of the chain. Jahangirpura police say a gang was siphoning consignments from tankers on a highway and diverting the material for illegal resale, a case that points to a wider logistics security problem for chemical transporters and buyers alike.
According to the Times of India, the operation led to the arrest of three men while three others escaped and are now being tracked. Investigators believe the racket was not a random theft but a planned operation built around access, transport and quick offloading, with tanker drivers themselves suspected of helping the accused reach the cargo.
Arrests and the suspected insider linkThe arrested men have been identified as Ladu alias Lokesh Khatik, Suresh Khatik and Shahrukh Makrani. Police say the absconding suspects include tanker drivers from whose vehicles the chemicals were being stolen, raising the possibility that the thefts were enabled from within the transport chain rather than by outsiders alone.
