Paddy purchase manager and employee absconding after misappropriation of Rs 33 lakh

Mahasamund. One fraud after another is being exposed in the Jadamuda paddy procurement center of Pithora block of the district. Now here farmers have been defrauded to the tune of lakhs of rupees.

In this paddy collection centre, the committee manager and two computer operators have taken away Rs 33 lakh from the paddy of 19 farmers by deceiving the farmers and depositing it in the accounts of others and absconded. The matter is of Basna police station area.

The whole matter is that Jadamuda procurement center in-charge Umesh Bhoi, computer operator Manish Pradhan, Manoj Pradhan in collusion and withdrew the amount by selling the paddy of 19 farmers in the accounts of other farmers. After the matter came to light, the operators including the center in-charge have absconded.

At the same time, on the complaint of farmers, the police has registered a case under sections 420, 409, 34 against the paddy procurement center in-charge and two computer operators at Basna police station and has started searching for the accused.