Madurai: The civil supplies criminal investigation division (CS-CID) police unit in Madurai seized 20.6 tonnes of PDS rice and wheat stashed in a godown near Iravathanallur on Tuesday morning.
CSCID officials said that they had received secret information that PDS rice was hoarded in an asbestos-roofed house near a flyover at the Ring Road-Kallambal Road intersection. A team conducted searches in the godown and seized 15.96 tonne of PDS rice and 4.6 tonne of wheat. Rice was found in 200 ration shop gunny bags and 119 plastic bags while wheat was found in 92 bags.
The proprietor of the godown, S Muthu, 43, of Mela Anupanadi Housing Board, was arrested. Inquiries revealed that he had purchased the items from ration shops in Usilampatti block.TNN
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