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Petrol Pump Scam: Whenever we go to a gas station to refill our vehicle, the employees there always ask us to check the zero on the meter, but even after that, we are always sceptical about it. A recent case has again highlighted the scam that a few petrol pumps allegedly do. A man, who hails from Kanpur, has filed a fraud complaint against a petrol pump as the gas station billed him for 53 litres of fuel, but the catch is that his car has a tank capacity of 45 litres. The district administration acted promptly and ordered a probe into the gas station’s dispensing units. Charan Singh, who took delivery of a brand-new Volkswagen Virtus, directly went to the gas station to fill the tank. But the bill he received completely baffled him.
Singh, whose car’s fuel indicator was near empty, asked attendants to top up the tank to capacity. The filling stopped at around 42 litres, and Singh asked why the filling paused? The attendant told him that large volumes were dispensed in two instalments. The filling process ended with a bill showing 52 litres of petrol.
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Charan Singh immediately raised questions on the reading, saying that his car’s tank capacity is 45 litres.
Singh immediately called in a representative from Volkswagen to the petrol pump. The company official, after checking the fuel tank and the fuel indicator, confirmed that the vehicle’s tank could not hold more than 45 litres.
The car owner later filed a complaint against the petrol pump, alleging that the it was not a malfunction but an organised fraud. The district administration has ordered a thorough probe into the matter.
The incident raises questions about the authenticity of petrol pumps and whether they are dispensing the correct quantity of fuel or scamming customers amid rising fuel costs.
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