Jabalpur: In Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, a massive scam, like the famous fodder scam, has come to light. Big-scale irregularities in paddy procurement are the scams that are done, and Collector Deepak Kumar Saxena has been taking strict action. FIRs have been booked against 74 individuals in 12 police stations of the district after a detailed investigation.
Senior official, rice mill owners and employees in procurement centres are accused. The case filed is against 13 employees of the Madhya Pradesh State Civil Supply Corporation, 17 rice mill owners and 44 employees of different societies and procurement centres.
Paddy procurement is found to have been saturated with fraud. Earlier, 22 people were booked for irregularities in the purchase of 3.81 lakh metric tons of paddy. The record of transportation turned out to be highly manipulated. According to the vehicles that were reportedly for paddy transport, what actually turned out to be the vehicles were cars and buses and not trucks. Also, the records of trucks shown to have never passed through the toll gates have raised suspicions about the whole process. A large amount was said to have been sold off locally through brokers rather than transporting paddy outside the region.
17 rice millers had falsely claimed that they procured over 14,000 tons of paddy. Records were provided for 614 vehicle movements, but for 571 of them, the records could not be verified. In shocking cases, the actual number of trucks listed was only 307, and that included cars and buses. Some warehouses also made fake entries of paddy procurement within minutes without any transactions.
Collector Saxena’s report has 2,510 pages detailing the scam. The 20 managers and computer operators were ordered to take action against 11 societies and procurement centres. Junior supply officers are also being punished under departmental action and the District Panchayat CEO has also been directed to take strict measures.
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