Police alleged that gas was stolen between March 30 and April 5. On April 6 and April 8, the tankers were taken for weighing at the Mahasamund food officer’s office. At a time when the conflict in West Asia has made cooking gas hard to come by for many, a racket in Chhattisgarh has been siphoning off over 90 metric tonnes of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), worth around Rs 1.5 crore, from tanker trucks and selling it in the black market, Mahasamund district police have found. The sequence of events dates back to December 2025, when police in Mahasamund’s Singhora area seized six LPG tankers that were stationed in a jungle area by a gang that was allegedly stealing gas from them. Additional SP Pratibha Pandey said a team of officials had spotted the trucks and alerted police, after which an FIR was filed, and the tankers were seized and kept in police custody till March.…