Date:24/08/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/08/24/stories/2008082459480300.htm

Karnataka - Bangalore

168 bags of rice, wheat confiscated

Staff Reporter

Bangalore: A team of officials from the Food and Civil Supplies Department on Saturday night seized 104 bags of rice and 64 bags of wheat that were being transported in a lorry from the Basavanagudi Cooperative Society to be sold in the black market. The officials, who were following the lorry , intercepted it at New Tharugpet, where the stock was supposed to be sold.