Raninagar upazila administration has seized 29.31 tonnes of rice meant for government鈥檚 food-friendly programmes and other social safety schemes from two warehouses of a rice trader during an anti-hoarding drive.
Raninagar assistant commissioner for land and executive magistrate Sheikh Nowshad Hasan conducted the drive in Kutkutitala area of Abadpukur Bazar in the upazila on Friday.
The rice was recovered from two godowns belonging to Jahangir Alam Babu in the area.
Technical food inspector Md Anisur Rahman of the Raninagar upazila food controller鈥檚 office, police from the Ekdala outpost, and several government-registered OMS and food-friendly programme dealers were also present in the drive.
Sheikh Nowshad Hasan said that a mobile court raided the two warehouses and found 453 sacks of 50-kg rice and 222 sacks of 30-kg rice.
Several empty government rice sacks were also found at the scene, he said.
The main accused, Jahangir Alam Babu, and others, however, fled the scene before the raid.
Nowshad Hasan said that a case under the Special Powers Act would be filed on Saturday by the Upazila Food Department with Raninagar police against Jahangir and others involved in the illegal hoarding.
