INDIA

Illegal trade of PDS rice, wheat in Hyderabad.

Abhijit

The Democracy News : Commissioner's task force raids several locales in Humayan Nagar, Chilkalguda, Musherabad, Malakpet, and Yakatpura police station limits Hyderabad Acting on believable information, the investigators of the manager’s task force arrested five persons for immorally accumulating rice from the public distribution system(PDS) and dealing it to agents in the black- request. The raids took place under the limits of Humayan Nagar, Chilkalguda, Musherabad, Malakpet, and Yakatpura police stations on Thursday.

Forty- six quintal PDS rice, four quintal PDS wheat, a importing machine, a two- wheeler and an Ashok Leyland vehicle, all worth Rs.2.5 lakh, have been seized from their possession. The indicted were storing the accumulated PDS rice and wheat which they sourced from portion card heirs and were storing the grains in a storehouse, which was raided and seized by the police.

The indicted have been handed over to the police stations concerned for farther action as per the law. Cases were filed against the indicted Vishal Yadav(22yrs), occupant of Attapur, Mohammad Nasir(28yrs) from Bholakpur in Musheerabad, Mohd Shoaib(20yrs) and Mohd Jahangir(28yrs) from Mahamoodguda in Warasiguda, Mohd Shahabaz,(28yrs) from Warasiguda, Sangam Lova alias Raju(24yrs) from Green Park Colony in Saroornagar, Syed Raheem(25yrs) and Syed Nazim(24yrs) and Mohammed Mazher(28yrs) from Patel Nagar in Amberpet.

S Rashmi Perumal, DCP, task force, Hyderabad, A Srinivas Rao, fresh DCP, task force, Hyderabad, Inspectors S Bala Swamy, south west zone, D Venkat Reddy, south east zone, A Nagarjuna, east zone and the staff of the manager’s task force took part in the raids.

The DCP has made it clear that the raids will continue to help the civil inventories department, and rigorously advised that action will be taken against those who are involved in similar illegal conditioning.