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Adilabad SP urged the farmers to stay vigilant and help the authorities to curb the sale of counterfeit seeds.

Spurious cotton seeds flood Adilabad district, putting farmers at risk as smugglers exploit loopholes, despite police crackdowns and sustained enforcement by special task forces

Police seized 20 quintals of the seeds worth Rs 60 lakh and a van from their possession

Seeds weighing over 247 kgs worth Rs 6.17 lakh seized; search on for two more accused persons

During interrogations, Uday Kumar and others confessed to committing the crime to make a fast buck. They admitted to procuring the seeds from Jagadishwar of Prakasam district.

A total of 310 kilograms of seeds, 50 litres of weedicide and two mobile phones were seized.

Disclosing details, Commissioner of Police M Srinivasulu said the seizure took place based on reliable information that spurious cotton seeds were being transported to Maharashtra from Karnataka.

Task force Inspector Sanjay said that Errabothu Raju from Kotthapalli and Thirumalashetti Ramakrishna belonging to Punnuru in Prakasham district of Andhra Pradesh were apprehended for possessing the seeds.

Stating that some persons were trying to make a fast buck by selling spurious cotton seeds and cheating gullible farmers, the SP said information of such traders would be gathered and stringent action would be initiated against them.

Following a tip-off, the police teams nabbed the gangs and recovered spurious seeds from them

Around 5,000 kilograms of the seeds were seized in Mancherial every year while Preventive Detention (PD) cases were registered against habitual traders

Hyderabad: The Balanagar Special Operations Team along with Dundigal police and Agriculture department officials busted a spurious cotton seeds (BG-II) racket and caught two persons on Saturday. They seized seeds weighing 400 kg and a car, altogether worth Rs.16.2 lakh. The arrested persons are M.Harish (36), from Karimnagar district and D.Hari (31), from Medchal, who […]

Kumram Bheem Asifabad: Three persons were arrested and a trader was booked for allegedly possessing and trading banned spurious cotton seeds here on Friday. A total of 150 kg of the seeds worth Rs 3 lakh, were recovered from them. Kaghaznagar DSP Karunakar told pressmen that the accused persons were Shaik Jameer from Gorregutta village […]

Mancherial: Cracking the whip against spurious seed traders, the police arrested a person for allegedly storing banned spurious cotton seeds at Karji Bheempur village in Bheemini mandal on Friday. A total of 40 kg spurious seeds worth Rs 80,000 were seized from him. Bheemini Sub-Inspector Venkatesh said that the accused person was Wadai Namdev from […]

The accused traders were Birudu Ramesh, a native of Bopparam village in Nennel mandal and Durgam Venkatesh, a resident of Mala Gurijala village in Bellampalli mandal.

According to the order, the accused traders were Nithin Prakash Mahanth and Manoj Sesha Rao, residents of Nagpur district in Maharashtra

Seven quintals of seed and 500 litres of glyphosate herbicide were also recovered from them

As many as 21 quintals of spurious cotton seeds, two cars, and a weighing machine, were recovered from the accused

Seven arrested with 29.2 quintals of spurious cotton seeds

The man, identified as Jalla Venkatiah (52) of Madgula Mandal in Ranga Reddy district, had stored the seeds in his shop and warehouse to sell it to farmers.