Despite intensified enforcement by the Civil Supplies Department, PDS rice smuggling syndicates allegedly continue operating across Hyderabad with political patronage and official support, sources claim. Authorities fear the organised network could expand into other forms of organised crime if left unchecked.
Telangana Civil Supplies Department has intensified monitoring and set up border check posts amid a fuel demand surge triggered by panic buying and price-gap exploitation. Oil companies have been directed to increase supply by up to 15 per cent.
Vigilance officials of the Civil Supplies department inspected rice mills in Jaipur and Chennur mandals after a Rs 1.39-crore paddy procurement scam surfaced in Jaipur. Records of paddy purchases and milling were verified, and one rice miller has already been arrested.
