Two held with 5 tonnes of ration rice in Coimbatore | Coimbatore Information – The Occasions of India

Coimbatore: The Civil Provides CID police on Saturday arrested two males, one in every of them a visitor employee, and foiled their bid to smuggle 5 tonnes of rice meant to be distributed beneath the Public Distribution System into Kerala.A police officer recognized the arrested duo as M Gnanasekaran, 45, of Edayarpalayam, and his worker S Mukesh Kumar, 33, a local of Bihar. “Gnanasekaran runs a combination store at Edayarpalayam and Mukesh is employed on the store. The duo collected ration ice from close by villages and saved the identical in three items autos. They had been planning to smuggle the rice to Kerala and promote it at a better worth.” The officer stated the duo had been nabbed based mostly on a particular tip that they had been in possession of illegally collected ration rice for smuggling. “We had been additionally advised that the rice was saved in three items autos. Civil Provides CID inspector Somasundaram and workforce searched the products autos that had been parked on the Anna Nagar housing unit close to Kavundampalayam. The workforce discovered that the autos had been loaded with 5 tonnes of ration rice.” Police seized the ration rice and arrested the 2 males, who had been later produced earlier than the judicial Justice of the Peace IV and lodged in jail beneath judicial custody.