PESHAWAR: The district administration here on Wednesday arrested the managers of five filling stations on the charges of cheating customers by giving them less quantity of petrol and charging full price.

Additional assistant commissioner Syeda Zainab Naqvi inspected the dispensers of different filling stations in the city and caught five petrol stations filling less than the paid for quantity of fuel in vehicles, according to a statement issued here.

She arrested the managers of the four filling stations on the University Road over faulty dispensers while the manager of the fifth filling station, located on the Canal Road, was arrested for operating it illegally.

According to the statement, deputy commissioner Shafiullah Khan has directed all the administration officers to continue inspection of the filling stations to curb cheating by giving less quantity of fuel to customers.

Published in Dawn, July 14th, 2022