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 ???

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Using a domestic gas cylinder for commercial purposes is illegal and can lead to severe penalties. A restaurant owner was recently sentenced to six months' imprisonment and a fine for this offense. This action is a violation of the Liquefied Petroleum Gas (Regulation of Supply and Distribution) Order, 2000, which prohibits possessing domestic LPG cylinders unless you are a registered consumer or distributor.

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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