Coimbatore: Two people were arrested with six tons of rice intended to be distributed through the Public Distribution System (PDS) in Tirupur on Thursday.
The official source said the 26-year-old Prakash, a Karipalalayam resident was close to Uthukuli, was arrested during the vehicle examination in SeranKadu in Tirupur on the day, while he carried 120 ration bags worth RS 2.33 lakh on mini trucks.
Every Gunny bag has 50kg rice rations.
“He was stopped by the civilian inventory police team led by Radhakrishnan sub-inspectors, and embarrassing civilian supplies Tahsildar Sundaram and Tim.
Prakash told them that the rice bag was loaded into his vehicle from a house behind a college in the city of Tirupur.
The team rushes to The house and captured Palanimy, 38, because they gathered Rice Ransum from various people and save them at his residence to sell them to guest workers and Poultries, “said the source.
The captured duo was produced before the justice judge, which returned them in the custody of the judiciary.
In a similar incident, another team of civilian inventories – Cid police had arrested two people carrying 1.5 tons of PDS rice in a pedicab rickshaw during a vehicle checking near KG Chavadi on Wednesday.
The police identified the defendant as Kasi, 40 and Anwar, 40, both the population of ukkadam in the city of Coimbatore.