IMPHAL, May 9: Enraged mob mostly comprising of LPG consumers of Tamenglong district today stormed the office of M/S Thomson Indane Agency Tamenglong and burned office files.
Sources said that the incident was fallout fail talk between the the consumers and the agency concerned held today at Children`™s Park/ Haipou Jadonang`™s Park at Tamenglong district HQs.
The public meeting was organized by Tamenglong LP Gas Domestic Consumer Welfare Association, (TLDCWA).
Despite a lengthy discussion between the association and Thomson Indane Agency, the Thomson Indane Agency failed to come to term. As such, the public meeting also resolved to surrender the Blue Book to the Thomson Indane Agency Tamenglong showing its discontentment on the dealing of the agency.
The M/S Thomson Indane Agency Tamenglong has charging Rs 1700 (for double cylinders) and Rs 1050 (for single cylinder) for changing name/ correction of name in the LPG book. The said agreement has agreed to take only Rs. 350 for change name and correction of name.
In the meantime, Police also rounded up the leaders of Tamenglong LP Gas Domestic Consumer Welfare Association and later released them.
An FIR also charged against the Tamenglong LP Gas Domestic Consumer Welfare Association at Tamenglong police station.
Tamenglong LP Gas Domestic Consumer Welfare Association alleged that the agency had issued many Blue books to consumers. The association alleged that the agency also issued only two/ three filled cylinders in a year.