{"id":2425,"date":"2020-03-12T08:47:14","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T08:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/?p=2425"},"modified":"2020-03-12T08:47:15","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T08:47:15","slug":"hold-crime-branch-probe-into-r-s-pura-foodgrains-scam-harsh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/12\/hold-crime-branch-probe-into-r-s-pura-foodgrains-scam-harsh\/","title":{"rendered":"Hold Crime Branch probe into R.S Pura foodgrains scam: Harsh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Jammu, 12-03-2020<\/em><\/strong>:<\/em><\/strong> Demanding the transfer of investigations in the infamous foodgrains scam of R.S Pura to Crime Branch and confiscation of the property of absconding businessmen who played fraud with the poor farmers, Mr. Harsh Dev Singh Chairman JKNPP today lambasted the local administration for their indifference and disregard for apprehending the culprits involved in the massive fraud of gargantuan proportions involving poor border area agriculturalists. He was addressing a press conference in Jammu today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

            Addressing the media persons, Mr. Harsh Dev Singh said that the poor farmers of R.S Pura, Suchetgarh, Ramgarh, Bishnah and Akhnoor had been robbed of their produce by a well knit mafia which needed to be busted at the earliest. He said that despite the continued protests of the aggrieved farmers for tracing the absconding businessman, no action had been taken by the administration. He said that farmers claimed to have been robbed of their foodgrains worth over hundred crores but the police administration had failed to apprehend the culprits. He said that not only was the case required to be handed over to Crime Branch as desired by the aggrieved farmers but the culprits needed to be declared as proclaimed offenders. He called for confiscation and seizure of the property of the fraudsters and its disposal so as to satisfy the claims of agitating farmers. He regretted that despite assurance of the Divisional Commissioner Jammu made to the delegation of affected farmers last month to hand over investigations to Crime Branch, no action had been initiated thus creating huge resentment amongst the affected farmers. He cautioned to gherao the Civil and Police administration in case the investigations through CB were not initiated immediately and absconding culprits apprehended and brought to book at the earliest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harbhajan Singh and Sh. Paramjit representatives of the aggrieved farmers revealed that \u201cthe said offenders have been running their firms under the name and style of M\/S Ashoka Traders International Cattle Feed through proprietor Sonu Gupta S\/o Niranjan Dass Gupta and M\/S Rakesh Rice Mill, Pindi Sarochan Tehsil R.S Pura, District Jammu. The said firms collected Paddy and wheat from hundreds of farmers on the assurance that they would be paid remunerative prices for their produce. The farmers were lured by the said firms operating their business through Sonu Gupta, Shashi Gupta S\/o Niranjan Dass Gupta and Gourav Gupta S\/o Puran Chand all residents of R.S Pura, District Jammu, to deposit their Paddy and wheat during 2018-19 and 2019-20 on the promise that they would be appropriately compensated at rates higher than those prevailing in the local market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Relying on the promise of the said businessman, the farmers of various villages of the aforesaid Tehsils deposited their produce with them only to discover at a later stage that they had been cheated. The said businessmen had not only failed to pay the price of the foodgrains but the main accused had absconded and their whereabouts were not known. It is being reported that these offenders had left the country as well which needed due attention of authorities concerned\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMr. Rattan Lal Choudhary said that several complaints were registered against the said fraudsters for robbing the poor, indigent farmers but of no avail. An FIR was registered under sec 420 IPC by the R.S Pura police and some of the accused enlarged on bail without interrogating them or holding a serious investigation in view of the offenders enjoying patronage of the local administration in view of their muscle and money power. The result is that the culprits have collected foodgrains worth hundreds of crores from the farmers of said Tehsils and the local Police has utterly failed to bust the scam of such huge magnitude for reasons best known. The non seriousness of the local administration has sparked massive outrage in the affected village which could take an ugly turn in case the govt did not act proportionally\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Gagan Partap Singh State Secretary (JKNPP), Mr. Baldev Singh and Mr. Rash Paul Singh were also present in the press conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jammu, 12-03-2020: Demanding the transfer of investigations in the infamous foodgrains scam of R.S Pura to Crime Branch and confiscation of the property of absconding businessmen who played fraud with the poor farmers,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2425","post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}