New Delhi, March 17 -- Delhi Police have busted an illegal LPG storage and blackmarketing operation in west Delhi's Mundka, recovering 610 cylinders from a godown and booking the distributor under the Essential Commodities Act, officers said on Monday.

Deputy commissioner of police (crime) Sanjeev Kumar Yadav said the crime branch, under ACP Pankaj Arora, carried out the raid on Sunday after receiving inputs about illegal storage and sale of LPG cylinders at a godown operating as Guruji Indane Gas Service.

Officers found commercial cylinders of multiple companies - Indane, Bharat Gas and HP - stored together inside the premises.

"While the firm is an authorised distributor of Indane, it had stored cylinders of other companies in bulk a...