Yogi govt to invoke National Security Act against 'sugarcane mafia'

Complicit sugar mills to also face similar action

Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh in Monday warned that it would invoke National Security Act, 1980 (NSA) against illegal procurement by the ‘sugarcane mafia’.

According to UP sugarcane commissioner Sanjay R Bhoosreddy, the department had received several complaints about illegal procurement of cane by such elements, who purchase the crop at throwaway prices from farmers under duress and supply it to mills.

Even some sugar mills have been found to be complicit in such illicit activities, which have not only harmed the farmers’ interests, but have also tarnished the image of the cane department.

He has directed state deputy