Police foil 'rice heist' attempt in CCpur
Source: Chronicle News Service / Kaimaunthang Mangte
Churachandpur, March 20 2023:
An attempt was made to siphon off the PDS rice meant for four assembly constituencies, namely Churachandpur, Singhat, Henglep and Saikot by some unscrupulous elements.
According to sources, the PDS rice bags were load ed into six trucks from FCI godown in Tualnuam.
The trucks were then on their way towards Imphal but were intercepted by a police patrol party in Thingkangphai area.
Altogether, six trucks were transporting around 6101.15 quintals of rice.
As per the receipt, the rice bags were released from FSO Churachandpur under Released Order No.449, mentioning the name of the depot as N Sudhir Singh (Letter no.23(5)/2015-Comp cell...) .
After hearing news of the alleged attempt, a team of the Consumers' Club along with leaders of different tribes rushed to the police station and raised questions on why such mischief was being played against the people.
Consumers' Club secretary Minlal remarked that people have not received any PDS rice this year and as such, urged the authorities concerned to take appropriate action against the person(s) responsible.