Five people booked after sand, dust found in government-procured wheat. Video

Five people, including the manager of a silo bag storage company in Madhya Pradesh’s Satna, have been booked for allegedly mixing sand and other dust particles in wheat procured the government. According to reports, sand was also found in government-procured paddy sacks in the same drict earlier.Read| Name of Bhopal’s Islam Nagar village changed to Jagdishpur

According to NDTV, a multi-dimensional team probed the matter and found sand and other dust particles were mixed with the wheat to increase the weight before it was dispatched from the silo for dribution.Read| Record wheat crop likely as acreage upNearly 7 lakh quintal wheat has been procured the government from farmers in last two years in the silo, of which over 3 lakh quintal has already been dispatched for dribution under the Public Dribution System (PDS) in various parts of MP, Bihar and Jharkhand.

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