CID Arrests Four Rice Millers For Supply Of Substandard Rice To FCI
The government had supplied Grade-A variety paddy to millers under Custom Milling Rice (CMR) for the year 2024-2025.
Karimnagar:CID of the state police arrested the owners of four rice mills in Karimnagar district on Sunday morning, for supplying substandard rice to Food Corporation of India.
Three millers from Jammikunta and one from Huzurabad were taken into custody around 5am.
Ollala Mallikarjun of Lakshmi Venkataramana rice mill, Yamsani Sampath of Lakshmi Sai Industries and Lenkalapalli Madhu of Radhakrishna rice mill of Jammikunta and Kalluri Krishnamurthy of Varalakshmi rice mill of Huzurabad were the four arrested millers.
They have been shifted to the CID office in Karimnagar for questioning.
The government had supplied Grade-A variety paddy to millers under Custom Milling Rice (CMR) for the year 2024-2025. Instead of fine variety, millers supplied normal variety rice to FCI under levy. This came to light when officials checked samples in FCI.
Stocks of normal variety rice had been found in rice mills during the raids carried out by the vigilance department.
Civil supplies department registered cases against three rice mills in Jagtial for missing Rs 89 crore worth paddy.
