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Tribune News ServiceAmritsar August 21Another controversy erupted today when hundreds of bags of wheat in Pungrain godown in Nangali village were found damaged and substandard wheat was allegedly being distributed to ration depots under the Atta-Dal scheme. The incident came to light when an RTI activist Varun Sareen along with media persons reached the godown after getting a tip-off that inferior quality wheat were being filled in the bags to be distributed under the scheme. Thousands of quintals of rotten wheat was allegedly being packed for the public distribution supply. Food and Civil Supply Director Abhinav Trikha has also marked a probe to Deputy Director Rajnish Kumar. Sareen alleged that the government wheat procured during the season was sold in black to flour mills and the bags were later filled with substandard and inferior quality wheat..