HYDERABAD: Almost all filling stations in Hyderabad city have stopped delivering supplies to the general public ever since the prices of petrol were slashed on May 31.

Petrol was being sold ‘in black’ on Tuesday by workers of filling stations making delivery in plastic bottles. Motorists and bike-riders were seen visiting different petrol pumps to get fuel supplies but in vain.

Hyderabad Deputy Commissioner Fuad Ghaffar Soomro directed assistant commissioners to visit filling stations and make sure that fuel supplies were normalised.

Assistant commissioner Ibrahim Arbab said that he visited some of the filling stations and warned their managements to resume normal supplies or face sealing of their installations.Many filling stations in the city kept their businesses closed on Tuesday.

Published in Dawn, June 3rd, 2020

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