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.
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.
Abdul Basheer was found to have stored three bags containing the prohibited seeds and was ready to sell them to gullible farmers, when the sleuths raided his house, following a tip off.