CHENNAI: In a crackdown on smuggling of PDS rice, the civil supplies CID police have booked 125 cases and arrested 142 people in the last one week. They also seized 169 tonnes of ration rice and 25 vehicles used for smuggling it.
Police said three of the main accused in the smuggling network were among those arrested.
From May 7 to August 13, 1,841 cases have been registered, 2,129 people arrested and a total of 1,183 tonnes of rice seized from them.
In all, 347 vehicles by the smugglers were also seized.
The civil supplies CID warned that action under the Essential Commodities Act will be initiated against those caught smuggling PDS rice.
