Rohit Kashyap, Mungeli. Due to irregularities in the paddy procurement center Guruvaindabari of Lormi development block of Mungeli district of Chhattisgarh, major action has been taken against the in-charge. The administration has registered a case against the in-charge of paddy procurement center Ramdas Banjare under two different sections.
Actually, District Collector Rahul Dev said that Ramdas Banjare was not cooperating in lifting paddy in this paddy procurement center, due to which irregularities were constantly being seen in the center. Due to this, the District Collector sent an administrative team to the paddy procurement center for investigation.
During the investigation, a shortage of more than 2000 quintals of paddy was found and many irregularities were found including taking gunny bags from farmers. In view of this irregularity, the collector has also formed a team to investigate the CCTV footage.
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On this matter, District Food Officer Devendra Kumar Bagga said that Guruvaindabari paddy procurement in-charge Ramdas Banjare had called a truck to the paddy procurement center on the morning of May 5 and had 600 sacks of paddy purchased from farmers, weighing approximately 240 quintals and worth Rs. 744000/-, loaded for illegal sale.
The food officer said that the in-charge institution manager of Seva Sahakari Samiti Guruvain’s Dabri Jugal Kishore Sahu and the supervisor of District Sahakari Bank branch Kanteli, Gajraj Singh, had informed about this to Lalpur police station. On which Lalpur police took first level action and sent an investigation team from the concerned department. The information received in the investigation was found to be correct. After which the district administration has registered a case against Ramdas Banjare under Section 420, 409 of the Indian Penal Code.
At the same time, Assistant Commissioner of Cooperation and Assistant Registrar of Cooperative Society Hitesh Shrivas said that out of the total 55972 quintals of paddy purchased in the current session 2023-2024 by Ramdas Banjare in Guruvaindabari, 47773.60 quintals of paddy has been delivered. The remaining 2095.20 quintals of paddy was to be found, which was not found during investigation. That is, Ramdas Banjare has dishonestly embezzled paddy worth Rs 64,94500.
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