63 quintals of PDS rice handed over to civil supplies department in Asifabad

The value of the grains was assessed to be Rs 1.50 lakh.

Kumram Bheem Asifabad: Government railway police handed over 63 quintals of PDS rice seized in the last six months to officials of the civil supplies department in Kaghaznagar on Saturday. The value of the grains was assessed to be Rs 1.50 lakh.

The officials said that the grains would be shifted to a mandal-level stock point of the civil supplies department. They stated that certain persons from several parts of the district and neighboring Mancherial district were smuggling PDS rice to Maharashtra by various trains to make a fast buck.

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