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PALAKKAD: A total of 830 kilograms of PDS rice brought from Tamil Nadu by the Palakkad—Pollachi passenger train were seized from a goods auto at Kollengode today by a team of members of the special squad of the district collector.

When the members of the team arrived the rice was being unloaded from the train at the Kollengode railway station and loaded into a goods auto. The special squad took the goods auto to the nearby Kollengode police station and handed over the rice to the Chittur taluk supplies office officials led by Taluk Supplies Officer R. Manoj and rationing inspectors R. Vijayan and Krishnadas.

The special squad of the district collector P. Marykutty had received a secret message that rice was being transported in the Pollachi—Palakkad passenger train. There were a total of 11 sacks in the load and all of them on inspection was found to be ration rice from Tamil Nadu.

While nine of the sacks were boiled rice, two were white rice. Since rice was a perishable commodity, it was moved to the wholsesale godown of the civil supplies department in Ootara. The address of the two persons and other details were noted down. They were Shashi, the person who purchased and transported the rice to Kollengode and the driver of the goods auto Rajan. R. Manoj said that the report of the seizures will be submitted to the collector on Saturday and if directed by the district administration a case will be registered by the Kollengode police on the two persons.