Jammu and Kashmir crime branch is probing the alleged multi-crore rice scam in the Food Corporation of India, the state Assembly was informed today.
Replying to M Y Tarigami (CPIM), minister for Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution (CA & PD) Qamar Ali Akhnoon told the house that the state crime branch had received a report that FCI in the state has allegedly misappropriated huge quantity of rice shown to have been dispatched from their Jammu godowns to Kashmir during 2008.
On the basis of the report, an FIR under section 409, 402, 468, 120B RPC was registered at the police station crime branch Kashmir, the minister said.
The investigation conducted so far has revealed that during 2008, as many as 2,592 truck loads of rice were shown to have been dispatched to Kashmir division. Out of this, a list of 481 trucks was forwarded to toll post Lower-Munda in Kashmir to ascertain whether these vehicles have actually crossed the toll post, Akhnoon said.
On verification, it was found that out of 481, 144 did not reach the FCI godowns of Kashmir division, the minister said.
According to the crime branch, a huge quantity of the food grain has been allegedly embezzled by the officials concerned and officers of the FCI, he said.
Various documents of transportation which were seized from different FCI godowns in Kashmir were also being examined
by it, Akhnoon said.
