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PDS case: Custody of two extended

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By Our Reporter

SHILLONG: The Court on Saturday remanded in police custody two of the accused arrested in connection with the alleged diversion of PDS rice into the black market.

“The court has again remanded two of the accused to police custody,” SP (City) M Kharkrang said.

Kharkrang said that the court remanded Henry Nonghuloo (the owner of the truck from which the PDS rice was being unloaded) in five-day police custody while businessman Nand Kishore Agarwal was remanded in four-day police custody. The SP (City) however informed that the other two accused who have been arrested in the same case are admitted in the hospital due to health complications.

Nitesh Agarwal is admitted at NEIGRHIMS while Weston Nonghuloo, uncle of Henry and former wholesaler of Laitumkhrah, is admitted at Shillong Civil Hospital.

Meanwhile, a senior police official has also informed that L Surong, the present wholesaler of Laitumkhrah, was interrogated on Friday night.

The police official, however, refused to divulge details about the confession of the woman wholesaler during her interrogation.

The police official also mentioned that Surong would not be arrested.

Earlier on Friday, Police had seized another 367 sacks of rice and 35 sacks of sugar suspected to be PDS items.

The 367 sacks of rice and 35 sacks of sugar were seized from the godowns of the two businessmen – Nitesh Agarwal and Nand Kishore Agarwal – at Iew Mawlong following raids conducted by the police. The raid was conducted following permission from the court.

Police has already indicated that the PDS racket is ‘really big’ and pointed out that more people were involved in the racket.

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