The Mumbai police arrested the alleged kingpin of a diesel smuggling racket in the last week of September. According to the police, the arrested accused, Raju Pandit, has five cases registered against him.

Oil on the sea
A police officer said, "On September 17 at night when people came to the beach for Ganpati Visarjan, Mumbai police patrolling in their Mumbai-10 boat saw a suspicious vessel in the Arabian sea, near Sewri jetty. When we entered the boat, no one was on board, but we found cans full of diesel." The total diesel in them was 25 lts. Police later said the arrested accused had delivered 1,600 lts diesel via the sea, on the day of the arrests.