A CID sleuth, acting on a tip-off on Wednesday, busted a gang involved in smuggling rice supplied by the Food Corporation of India for mid-day meals and BPL families.
The sleuth caught two youths in the case and seized at least 200 bags of rice from a truck near the Boragaon LP School here. Each bag contained 50kg of rice. The youths were identified as Munin Deka (24) and Mujakir Hussain (19), both hailing from Bihata Chariali in Kamrup district.
"There is a huge food smuggling racket going on in the state, especially of rice allotted to various cooperatives for distribution in schools for mid-day meal and to BPL families. There are gangs from Baihata Chariali, Nalbari, Changsari and some other parts of lower Assam that are involved in selling this rice in the black market of Meghalaya," said a CID official.
The truck seized on Wednesday was on its way to Shillong from Nalbari. The arrested also disclosed that they were bringing the rice bags from a godown at Banekhuchi area in Nalbari.
The sleuth caught two youths in the case and seized at least 200 bags of rice from a truck near the Boragaon LP School here. Each bag contained 50kg of rice. The youths were identified as Munin Deka (24) and Mujakir Hussain (19), both hailing from Bihata Chariali in Kamrup district.
"There is a huge food smuggling racket going on in the state, especially of rice allotted to various cooperatives for distribution in schools for mid-day meal and to BPL families. There are gangs from Baihata Chariali, Nalbari, Changsari and some other parts of lower Assam that are involved in selling this rice in the black market of Meghalaya," said a CID official.
The truck seized on Wednesday was on its way to Shillong from Nalbari. The arrested also disclosed that they were bringing the rice bags from a godown at Banekhuchi area in Nalbari.
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