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In a lawsuit of rivalry betwixt 2 groups of atom smugglers, a van carrying 1 tonne of ration atom was attacked by different radical adjacent Sattur connected Wednesday.
The perpetrators besides pulled retired fewer bags of ration atom and spilled the grains connected Sivakasi-Sattur road adjacent Chinnakamanpatti.
Based connected a circumstantial input, Superintendent of Police, Civil Supplies-Criminal Investigation Department (Madurai), Srinivasa Perumal, had intercepted 2 vehicles astatine Karivalamvanthanallur successful Tenkasi territory connected Tuesday night.
The sleuths, on with the assistance of Tenkasi territory police, seized implicit 5 tonnes of ration atom that was being smuggled.
Meanwhile, connected Wednesday greeting the van was intercepted by unidentified persons and the windshield was smashed.
The pack members than opened the conveyance and spilled the atom connected the roadworthy and fled from the scene.
Two persons who were travelling successful the van besides fled the scene.
After passers-by alerted Sattur Town police, the constabulary recovered 1 tonne of ration rice.
Mr. Srinivasa Perumal said that the 2 persons person been arrested and hunt for the proprietor of the rice, Arumugam, was underway.
The incidental is suspected to beryllium a fallout of the Food Cell sleuths having seized the 5 tonne of ration rice. Suspecting that the different radical of smugglers could person tipped disconnected the constabulary astir the smuggling, they attacked the van.
