DADU: 7,200 bags of wheat go missing

Published February 12, 2003

DADU, Feb 11: The anti-corruption police raided a wheat godown of the food department at Bolari on Tuesday and found 7,200 bags of wheat missing.

A team of the anti-corruption police, led by the circle officer, Kotri, Zakir Hussain, raided the Bolhari wheat godown on Tuesday. On checking its record, it found 7,200 wheat bags missing.

The anti-corruption police seized the record of the godown and recorded the statements of 12 food officials, including assistant food controllers, Manzoor Shah and Mukhtiar Ahmed, ward rationing officer Qazi Mohammad Bux, food supervisor Ali Nawaz Abro, food inspectors Inayat Shah, Aslam Memon, Roshan Mangi, Ghulam Mustafa Sehto, Ghulam Ali Shah, Wahab Soomro, and Ghulam Hussain Gaho and district food controller Ayub Rind.

The district food controller told newsmen that four officials — assistant food controller Manzoor Shah and three food inspectors, Inayat Shah, Ghulam Mustafa Sehto and Roshan Mangi, had been suspended.

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