Bharatpur : Rupwas police station of Bharatpur district and the Food Department, in a joint action, have arrested 9 people for attempting to smuggle rice by illegally storing it to be distributed to the general public from the government quota in Uttar Pradesh. About 300 sacks of rice, a trailer, a seed car and an eco car have been seized from their possession. Police are likely to make more revelations after interrogating the arrested accused. Police station in-charge Lakhan Singh Khatana said that information was received through an informer that the rice distributed to card holders under the public distribution system in the state of Uttar Pradesh was being distributed through various sources. It is being collected illegally from sources by building a warehouse inside a house in village Milswa.
300 bags of rice were seized
On receiving information about which, when we reached the spot, we found a large quantity of rice. Food department officials from Rupwas, Kheragarh and Agra of Uttar Pradesh were called on the spot. Nine persons were arrested in the joint action of police and food department. 300 sacks of rice, a trailer, a Bija and an Eeco car have been seized from their possession. The 9 arrested people have been identified as Sumit son of Mahesh Chand, Rinku son of Shivchatan, Bantu son of Badriprasad, Kanchan son of Prabhudayal, Nawab Singh of Agra district. As son Sobran Singh, Harbhan Singh as son Vidyaram, Chhotu as son Ramprakash, Satyaprakash as son Ramprakash, Yudhishthir as son Dhajuram. It happened in.
Action on the border of two states
Milswa village situated in Rupwas police station area is situated on the border of Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan. For a long time, wheat and rice available to the common people through government quota has been smuggled here. But whenever the police raided, the smugglers used to run away with the goods.
