Hyderabad: The police has started booking smugglers of PDS commodities under the PD Act as they used to secure bail easily and return to their business. Six persons were booked under the PD Act on Tuesday.
Police said that one of the smugglers is Bussa Srinivas who has now been booked under the PD Act. He is a grocery merchant and had been diverting PDS commodities for around a year.
"He used to transport about 800 quintals of rice to Thipparthi in Nalgonda district and Shadnagar in Mahbubnagar district every month. He was earlier booked by Uppal, Amberpet and Chilkalguda police and 339 quintals of rice and 495.50 quintals of wheat were seized,” said an official.
Another smuggler is Paluwai Karunakar, a rice miller of Nalgonda district. He, Srinivas and other brokers used to collect PDS rice and take it to Kakinada port. He was earlier booked by Keesra, Amberpet and Chilkalguda police.The police seized 338.50 quintals of rice from him, said an official.
The Commissioner's Task Force had conducted raids along with civil supplies officials earlier and had arrested 94 people. Fifty cases were booked and 2,200 quintals of PDS rice, 1,113 quintals of wheat, 2,750 litres of kerosene, 137 quintals of sugar and 42 quintals of red gram were seized in the last four months.
