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"In Allahabad alone, 33 kotedars (fair price shop owners) have been booked under Section 3/7 of the Essential Commodities Act by name. This, even as ADM civil supplies first assured us that no case would be registered against us but then next day an FIR was lodged against us," said Shiv Varan Singh, president, Fair Price Shop Owners Association. "The protests, agitations and sit-ins would continue unless government discloses the names of corrupt government officials from their own department," he added.Several FIRs across the state were registered. TOI had on Monday reported that most of the fair price shop owners across UP have now approached the Allahabad high court with criminal writ petitions and PILs stating that government officials only have access to alter the Aadhaar or ration records. While 319 have been booked under the I-T Act..