General clarification relating to the gas cylinder
Gowtham karthickraja
(Querist) 09 July 2023
This query is : Resolved
If i use the domestic gas cylinder for the commercial purpose can police has a right to ceize the domestic gas cylinder and police has a right to charge and impose fine ???
T. Kalaiselvan, Advocate
(Expert) 10 July 2023
The owner of a restaurant was sentenced to six months’ rigorous imprisonment and a fine for using a domestic LPG cylinder commercially.
The court of the chief judicial magistrate Darak Ullah found Lalbabu Pandey, owner of a restaurant on MG Road near the old public bus stand here, guilty (in CR case No. 13/13) of possessing a domestic LPG cylinder (in use) at the restaurant a year back.
The CJM, after finding Pandey guilty, sentenced him to six months’ RI and imposed a fine of Rs 5,000, failing which he will have to undergo a simple imprisonment of one month.
It said under sub-clause 1(C) of clause 7 of the Liquefied Petroleum Gas (Regulation of Supply and Distribution) Order, 2000, “no person shall possess filled or empty LPG cylinders, gas cylinder valve or pressure regulator unless he/she is a consumer or a distributor”.
The charge was framed in the court on July 16, 2013, after a team of food and civil supplies and consumer affairs officials, led by the then Jorhat subdivisional officer (sadar), G.S. Paneswar, visited the restaurant on October 8, 2012 and found a domestic LPG cylinder in use for commercial purpose.
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Dr. J C Vashista
(Expert) 11 July 2023
It is illegal to use a domestic LPG cylinder for commercial purpose.
kavksatyanarayana
(Expert) 11 July 2023
Agreed with the opinion of the above experts.
P. Venu
(Expert) 16 July 2023
What are the facts? What is the context?
