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Watch: In car chase, TN cops recover 1000 kg of PDS rice

An intense car chase in the dark, the path ahead illuminated just by the trailing car’s headlights, takes place on a bumpy, narrow road. Even as the car honks, the Tata Sumo in front of it jolts across the main road in a jiffy and proceeds to the other side. 

As the trailing car’s honks get louder, the Tata Sumo finally pulls over to the side of the road and the visual shakily ends.

This car chase took place in RK Pet area in Thiruvallur and was done by Thiruvallur Civil Supply CID unit sub-inspector Tr Muthamil Selvan and Inspector Pc Muthumanickam on Tuesday night.

In high-speed car chase, #Thiruvallur CSCID unit SI Tr Muthamil Selvan and Pc Muthumanickam catch a TATA Sumo vehicle from smuggling 1000 kg PDS #rice to #Andhra. pic.twitter.com/P37HN1azjn

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“We received a tip-off from the Inspector that sacks of fair-price rice, that are sold in our PDS shops, was being smuggled to Andhra and we were waiting in our police vehicle in RK Pet area. Around 9.30 pm we spotted and followed the Tata Sumo for about 2 kilometres and when we finally rounded up the driver, who jumped and ran off into the forest area near RK Pet Pallipet main road,” says Muthamizh Selvan.

The driver who absconded has identified as Linganathan, son of Annamalai, a resident of Samathuvapuram in RK Pet. 1000 kilos of rice was recovered from the vehicle which will be sent back to the state’s storage area and will be back in circulation in PDS shops.  The sub-inspector also states the main intent behind such operations are to sell them for double their price in Andhra. He also adds ever since smart cards were issued to households, such incidents have reduced.

“This happens quite frequently. There are people who buy rice from people for an amount and sell them in Andhra for double its price. Rice is the main commodity that can be sold like this. We’ve done several seizures in the past, this is the first time it was caught on camera,” he explains.

He also adds that unlike rice, items like sugar and dal cannot be sold for twice their price.

Source: The News Minute