Jaipur: The Special Operations Group (SOG) Saturday arrested the alleged kingpin of an inter-state gang accused of stealing crude oil through illegal pipeline tapping.A cash reward of Rs 50,000 had been announced earlier for his arrest. Officials stated that the accused was planning to dig tunnels in Hisar, Haryana to steal oil from pipelines.Assistant director general (SOG) VK Singh said the arrested man, identified as Dinesh alias Anmol alias Rahul Rathi, 38, is a resident of Amar Colony, Kamruddin Nagar, Nangloi in Delhi and had been living in Bahadurgarh, Jhajjar, Haryana. The SOG team arrested him from Sector-16 in Rohini, Delhi, after tracking him for weeks.On Jan 13, an IOCL company report stated that unknown individuals had dug a tunnel in Shahjahanpur, Kotputli, to establish an illegal connection to the Gujarat-Haryana crude oil pipeline and divert oil. During the SOG operation, the accused were identified. After confirming the involvement of a wider inter-state gang, the SOG announced Rs 50,000 each for the main accused before apprehending him.Police reported that Rathi is a habitual offender with more than 33 criminal cases registered against him.Preliminary findings revealed he was devising plans to illegally tap into the HPCL pipeline in Narnaund, Hisar, to steal crude oil and sell it.