Hans News Service Holagunda (Kurnool district)

DistrictCivil Supplies Officer (DSO) Rajaraghuveer seized large quantities of PDS rice, illegally stocked in residential premises in EBC Colony, Cinema Road and other areas of Holagunda mandal headquarters late on Wednesday evening.

Acting on credible information, the DSO conducted raids along with CS DTI Deepa, Tahsildar Lakshmiraju and SI Dileep Kumar. While searching a house in EBC Colony, officials found 15 bags containing 6.25 quintals of rice and seized the stock.

Later, they seized 189 bags containing around 77 quintals of rice at another house on Cinema Road.

The house owners and some locals entered into an argument with the officials, claiming that the seized rice was not PDS stock but had been procured from farmers. However, officials suspected that PDS rice might have been mixed with the stock and decided to send samples to the laboratory in Kurnool for testing.

Tahsildar Lakshmiraju said the laboratory report will come in two days. He said cases would be registered against those responsible, if PDS rice is there in seized stocks. The entire stock has been kept under the custody of revenue officials pending the test results.