The CBI on Tuesday released searches at 30 places in Punjab as a part of its probe into allegations of corruption in opposition to Food Corporation of India (FCI) officers who procured inferior grains to advantage traders and rice-millers, officers said.
The CBI groups began out coordinated raids on the premises of grain traders, rice-mill owners, and serving and retired officers of the FCI in numerous districts of Punjab, consisting of Fatehgarh Sahib and Moga, as a part of Operation Kanak 2, they said.
This is the second one spherical of searches withinside the case touching on an organised syndicate of officials on the FCI, who allegedly took bribes of ₹1,000- ₹4,000 a truck unloaded on the FCI godowns from personal millers according to crop season for protecting up decrease great grains provided with the aid of using them except different favours.
The bribes had been allegedly shared with officers at each stage as much as the headquarters in a well-described percent of cuts at every stage, it alleged. The first statistics report (FIR) gave info of such bribe series in FCI depots throughout Punjab.
Officials starting from technical assistants to govt administrators had been allegedly a part of a syndicate receiving bribes from personal millers, they said.
“The bribe became accumulated on the depot stage with the aid of using FCI officers on a according to truck foundation being unloaded on the depot at some stage in garage of grains. Thereafter, this quantity became disbursed amongst FCI officers of various ranks,” the FIR said.
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