Govt To Invoke LPG Control Order Under ECA Ambika Pandit | TNN New Delhi: After six intensive raids in the past four months and 217 prosecutions, the weights and measures department finds that LPG continues to be stolen and siphoned off from domestic cylinders into the black market. As a result, the department has decided to step up enforcement by lodging FIRs against repeated offenders instead of simply charging a fine of Rs 3,000 against them during the future raids. Now, it has been decided to invoke the LPG Control Order under the Essential Commodities Act which permits registering of FIRs against offenders wherein the punishment can be even be a jail term varying between six months and three years.