The district unit of petroleum dealers’ association has decided to shut all the gas filling stations for 24 hours from June 1 midnight.

The association is disappointed with the pace of police investigation into the murder of Daulat Pandey and the subsequent loot of Rs 2.5 lakh from Maa Chamunda Petrol Service Station on May 29.

Members of the association held a meeting in the presence of the organisation’s state president Prabhat Kumar Singh and other office-bearers on Friday morning.

The association has decided to shut all the gas filling stations from June 1 midnight for 24 hours to express anguish over the alleged onslaught on petrol dealers and the alleged failure of the police to tame criminals targeting the dealers.

The district president of the association, Ramadhar Pandey, said the organisation is unhappy with the probe so far in the case.

Ramadhar demanded arms licences for all petrol dealers, deployment of highway mobile police outside petrol pumps, deputation of guards at the gas stations and surprise police patrolling to check crime against the dealers.

Pandey said a delegation of representatives from the association would meet chief minister Nitish Kumar and director-general of police Abhayanand and lodge their protest over the rising trend of attacks on petrol dealers.

The association described the arrest of a “kingpin” of a criminal gang, Sunil Sahni, in the case as mere eyewash and demanded immediate arrest of all five criminals involved in the murder of Daulat Pandey.

Pandey, an employee at a filling station at Rajadih village under Katra police station, was gunned down by motor cycle-borne assailants on May 29. Another employee at the station was injured in the attack.