Police seize 4,900 kg of ration rice during vehicle inspection near Karaikudi

Police arrested 4 people, including a pistillate autorickshaw driver, for smuggling 4,900 kg of ration atom adjacent Karaikudi.

As constabulary were progressive successful conveyance cheque successful Karaikudi and different adjacent areas, they stopped a conveyance successful suspicion of smuggling rice.

During the inspection of the goods van which went from Tiruppathur, they recovered 300 kg of ration rice. They seized the van and the rice, and arrested the operator Nagaraj, 28.

Similarly, they inspected an autorickshaw that was passing by and recovered 300 kg of ration atom inside. They seized the autorickshaw, atom and caught Revathi, 36.

In different inspection of a van from Kalaiyarkoil, they recovered 300 kg of ration rice. The operator Chellapandi, 37, was arrested and atom was seized.

In Pallathur area, portion checking a courier conveyance from Madurai, constabulary recovered 4,000 kg of ration rice. The probe revealed that the courier sticker was a screen for smuggling the rice. Police seized the van and the atom and arrested Santhosh, 19, from Madurai.

Police noted that arsenic determination were galore atom mills operating successful the country astir Karaikudi, the ration atom that was smuggled from different adjacent districts was brought to the mills for polishing to summation its selling value.