Here is the further developments regarding my yesterday's post Subsidiary Rice being smuggled out the police have finally seized more than 1000 such rice bags which were meant for the poor in separate incidents.
Nellore, June 3: Police seized 1,090 bags of Rs 2-kg-rice in two separate incidents at Sullurpeta and Tada mandals on Tuesday. In the first incident, 340 bags of rice along with the lorry carrying them was seized at a fuel outlet near the RTC depot at Sullurpeta in the morning.
The waybill and other papers produced by the lorry driver proved to be fake after a police team verified the veracity of the documents with officials at the integrated checkpost at Tada. The lorry was on its way to Tamil Nadu. In the second incident, police confiscated 750 bags of rice dumped in paddy fields at Vatambedu in Tada mandal in the evening, following a tip off.
The Rs 2-a-kg rice of both Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh was found among the rice bags seized in the incidents. The Nellore district superintendent of police, Mr B. Malla Reddy, said that they had seized 2,250 bags of rice during the past 15 days.
Stressing that Tada and Sullurpeta had become hubs for recycling ration rice, the SP said police would conti-nue the raids to put an end to illegal activity in the region. The Sullurpeta and Tada police, led by circle inspector, Sk Kaleshavali, carried out the raids. Tada and Sullurpeta sub-inspectors, Mr P. Madhava Rao and Mr K. Satyanarayana, the ID party constables, Mr P. Srikumar Reddy and Mohammed Wajeed, were among the teams that took part in the raids, among others.
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