Thane police crime DCP, Abhishek Trimukhe, said, “We are interrogating these accused. He auto bearings factorys Suppliers has been doing this for the past three years and was arrested after we got information about him during interrogation of the other accused.The chips were allegedly sold for Rs 50,000 to the accused in UP.Police has listed some petrol pumps suspected of using electronic chips to manipulate discharge of fuel. Sona-wane too is an engineer and was involved in fitting chips in the machines,” the officer said. Nemade was in touch with Shetey.

Nemade is a software engineer and used to make software to tamper with petrol pump machines.. We arrested them Thursday morning. Our police teams are working on different aspects of the case to unearth the scam. The police officers had raided several petrol pumps in Thane and Dombivali last month.Police has listed some petrol pumps suspected of using electronic chips to manipulate discharge of fuel.

The Thane police has arrested three more accused in the petrol pump scam.” Till now, more than 80 petrol pumps have been sealed all over the state. Thakrey was detained earlier as he used to fit the chips in petrol machines.A police officer said, “After interrogating 19 accused, including the main accused Vivek Shetey who used to make the cheat chips, we came to know about these three accused. During interrogation, he admitted to having installed several chips in Nagpur and we arrested him.The arrested accused have been identified as Pune resident Anil Sona-wane, Nagpur resident Kumar Thakrey, and Navi Mumbai resident M. Of the trio, one was involved in the making of software used to tamper with legit petrol pump machines while the other two were chip fitters. Shetey, who has a Master of Science degree in electronics, was earlier arrested from Dombivali by UP police for having manufactured such chips at his workshop. Our team is working to find other chipmakers, whom we will arrest soon. Nemade