Telangana News: Parallel network using Civil Supplies Corporation logo busted

Hyderabad: A parallel network involved in large-scale civil supply operations for a long time using the logo and label of Telangana State Civil Supplies Corporation has been busted. The corporation’s enforcement task forces (ETFs) and police task force in a joint operation raided a warehouse at Pasha Melaram near Patancheru in Sangareddy and unearthed a network carrying out large-scale underground operations. The network was involved in diverting recycled rice meant for the Public Distribution System (PDS) from various mills to FCI and State Warehousing Corporation warehouses as new custom milled rice. About 750 metric tonnes of PDS rice illegally stored and transported in seven trucks was seized.

It was also found that it used to clean PDS rice collected from various sources, re-pack it in new sacks for recycling and supplying it back to the PDS system. Sacks bearing the logo and label of Telangana Civil Supplies Corporation were used for all its underground operations. The vigilance and enforcement wing of the Civil Supplies Corporation has registered a case against a warehouse owner in connection with the seizure and a search is on for those behind the illegal operation. Cases have also been registered against the drivers of the trucks engaged in transporting the material. The civil supplies vigilance and enforcement teams have seized 28,610 quintals of PDS rice along with 148 vehicles engaged in transporting the material. Besides, just before crossing the interstate border with Maharashtra, the enforcement task force team seized 767 quintals of PDS rice being transported in four trucks at Kaleshwaram.