Hyderabad, May 2 -- Police Commissioner VC Sajjanar on Saturday, May 2, felicitated a father-son duo for exposing an illegal gas cylinder refilling racket in Hyderabad's Chudi Bazaar area.

Ashok Tiwari, a businessman from Chudi Bazaar, received a domestic LPG cylinder he had booked on April 21. During delivery, his 16-year-old son, Naman, noticed that the cylinder felt lighter than usual. Recalling a similar issue during a previous delivery, they weighed it and found a discrepancy-against the prescribed 30.4 kg, the cylinder weighed only 28 kg.

Suspecting foul play, especially since the gas had been running out unusually quickly in recent weeks, the duo questioned the delivery staff at Siddharth Enterprises.

They discovered that employ...