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Rice meant for mid-day meal scheme seized from market

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Press Trust of India Faizabad
Last Updated : Jan 20 2013 | 3:24 AM IST

District magistrate J P Gupta raided a rice mill after getting a tip-off that a truck loaded with rice belonging to mid-day meal scheme is being smuggled out from there, officials said.

The mill reportedly belonged to a former BSP MLA.

The rice was to be sold in black market.

This truck was loaded from Food Corporation of India ware house and was to be unloaded at distribution centre at Tarun Block of Bikapur tehsil. PTI Corr SHS

  

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First Published: Apr 27 2012 | 10:25 PM IST

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