India, March 25 -- A 45-year-old man was arrested from Sector 12, Gurugram, for allegedly stocking, unauthorised refilling and sale of LPG cylinders, officials from the district food and supplies controller (DFSC) department said.

Thirty-five cylinders were recovered from an empty plot near a private hospital during a joint operation by DFSC teams and local police on Tuesday around 9am, officials privy to the matter said.

DFSC inspector Ashok Rawat said the department acted on secret information about unauthorised LPG sales in the area. "An investigative team was formed and sent to the spot. Around 32 filled domestic cylinders, one empty cylinder, two empty five-kilogram cylinders, and one filled ten-kilogram cylinder were seized," he s...