Illegal stock of pulses worth Rs 1 crore seized in Rajkot

Food supply department of Rajkot on Thursday seized pulses stock worth Rs one crore, which was kept illegally by two city-based traders. The case of illegal stock has been handed over to the collector as the amount involved is quite big.

The Rajkot collector will soon file a case against both the traders under Section 6A of Essential Commodities Act. "We raided two traders having operations in Danapith area and seized 227,450 kg of illegal stock of pulses to the tune of Rs 1.07 crore from Raichura traders and Raghuvanshi traders. The department recovered unaccounted stock of tur dal, masur dal, urad and mung and mung fal from these traders," said Manoj Makawana, district supply officer, Rajkot.

"Further actions will be taken by the collector. The traders will have to give bank guarantee of the same amount as that of seized by the department. There is no time limit to give such guarantee," he added.

Acting on the orders given by the collector, two teams of food supply department cracked down on the premises these two traders at Danapith, which is popularly known as pulses market in the city.

The department seized 16,565 kg urad, 13,775 kg tur dal, 11,900 kg mung, 15,600 kg mung fada, 6,690 mung dal from Raghuvanshi traders and 32,665 kg tur dal, 14,000 kg chana, 17,440 kg masur dal, 8,550 urad and 24,000 kg other pulses from Raichura traders.