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The Hindu Bureau

Inter-State spurious seed racket busted: cotton seeds worth ₹2.11 crore, ₹21 lakh, machinery seized

In a joint operation, the Warangal police commissioner’s task force, along with the Madikonda and the Enumamula police, on Thursday arrested 15 members of two gangs engaged in making/marketing spurious cotton seeds and seized seeds worth ₹2.11 crore, from the Warangal police commissionerate limits.

About seven tonnes of loose seeds, 9,765 packets, a DCM van, a car, ₹21 lakh and the machinery used for making the spurious seeds were seized, according to Warangal police commissioner A.V. Ranganath.

Addressing reporters here, he said one gang purchased loose seeds from farmers for lesser prices and transported it to another gang led by Dasari Srinivas of Andhra Pradesh’s Kurnool district and one Bhaskar Reddy.

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