Hyderabad, July 2 -- If you ever suspected of getting lesser than what you paid for at a petrol bunk, chances are that your hunch may have been because several outlets have been booked by the Legal Metrology Department here for exactly that. A Right to Information (RTI) query has revealed that as many as 8341 fuel outlets have been booked for supplying lesser petrol or for charging excess in Hyderabad and over 21000 Telangana from between 2020 and 2025.

The information from the RTI queries was filed by activist Robin Zaccheus with the Legal Metrology Department. The data sought was for the districts of Hyderabad, Nizamabad and Nalgonda districts, for the periods between 2020 and 2025 (upto June). In total, 21718 have been booked by the d...