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DIG to probe `disappearance' of rice

Special Correspondent

KOZHIKODE: The DIG, Crime Branch, has been asked by Ombudsman for Local Self-Government T.K. Chandrasekharadas to conduct an inquiry into the circumstances that led to the "disappearance" of 37,500 kg of rice released from the godown of the Food Corporation of India (FCI).

The inquiry report has to be submitted to the Ombudsman. The rice that "disappeared" was sanctioned under flood relief programme for road construction in Muttil panchayat in Wayanad.

The panchayat secretary had authorised a lower division clerk to lift the rice from the FCI godown. A receipt was issued after the rice was handed over to a person who had come forward to collect it. However, Muttil panchayat member K.M. Elias, in a petition to the Ombudsman, complained that the rice had not been received by the panchayat committee for distribution under the flood relief programme.

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