Police book rice mill partners for pocketing farmers’ money

  • | Wednesday | 11th July, 2018

The mill belonged to Puranpur-based Satsai rice industries. PILIBHIT: An FIR was lodged on Tuesday against three people who were operating a rice mill here, for embezzling around Rs 2.50 crore. The money was meant to pay farmers for their wheat and paddy. They, however, did not make any payment to the farmers.The matter had first come to light when a group of 11 farmers from Puranpur tehsil circle recently filed a complaint in the matter to the district magistrate, Akhilesh Kumar Mishra, after which he ordered ADM, (finance and revenue), Braj Kishore, to start a probe in the matter. A written complaint in the matter was filed by a marketing inspector, Prabhat Kumar, on Tuesday evening.The move was taken after a designated official team, headed by the sub divisional magistrate of Puranpur, JPS Chauhan, raided the godown of the rice mill and recovered more than 6,000 bags of wheat and paddy on July 7.

PILIBHIT: An FIR was lodged on Tuesday against three people who were operating a rice mill here, for embezzling around Rs 2.50 crore. The mill belonged to Puranpur-based Satsai rice industries. The money was meant to pay farmers for their wheat and paddy. A written complaint in the matter was filed by a marketing inspector, Prabhat Kumar, on Tuesday evening.The move was taken after a designated official team, headed by the sub divisional magistrate of Puranpur, JPS Chauhan, raided the godown of the rice mill and recovered more than 6,000 bags of wheat and paddy on July 7. SHO of Puranpur Kotwali police station, Keshav Tiwari, said that the FIR had been lodged against Samarveer Singh, Sunita Dixit (both partners of Satsai industries) and their accountant Vipin under sections 420 (Cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property), 467(Forgery of valuable security, will, etc), 468(Forgery for purpose of cheating) of the IPC, as well as sections 3 and 7 of Essential Commodities Act and section 138 of Negotiable Instruments Act.The three booked had procured agricultural produce of the farmers in the name of Simbhua wheat purchase centre under the food corporation of India (FCI). They, however, did not make any payment to the farmers.The matter had first come to light when a group of 11 farmers from Puranpur tehsil circle recently filed a complaint in the matter to the district magistrate, Akhilesh Kumar Mishra, after which he ordered ADM, (finance and revenue), Braj Kishore, to start a probe in the matter.

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