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According to officials, this was revealed when the department linked farmers’ land records with their Aadhaar card and scanned them. The report revealed that around 10.500 farmers and touts were procuring excess supply tickets by fudging land records and providing fake information to the department. This was done by procuring supply tickets fraudulently to sell cane to mills. Now, the cane department is planning a crackdown on this mafia.”Sources said thousands of touts and farmers got excess supply tickets in their names with the connivance of mill staff and cane department officials. A probe has been ordered into the matter.According to officials, there are around three lakh farmers in Bijnor who supply cane directly to nine sugar mills in the district..