Three held for transporting 700 kg fake cotton seed
2 weeks, 5 days ago

Three held for transporting 700 kg fake cotton seed

The Hindu  

A gang of three involved in peddling fake cotton seed was arrested while transporting them, in a joint operation by the Balanagar Special Operations Team and Bachupally police, on Tuesday. The police seized 700 kilograms of fake BG-III cotton seed worth ₹17.5 lakh from them. The accused were identified as Aluru Madanna, 54, a farmer from Ganjerla village in Kurnool district, Adarsh, 26, the lorry driver, and Golla Uday, 23, the cleaner. Investigation revealed that the main accused Madanna allegedly manufactured the fake seed by mixing dye with seed collected from a ginning mill in Gajendragad, Karnataka.

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Fake Cotton Seeds Manufacturing Unit Busted in Adilabad
10 months ago

Fake Cotton Seeds Manufacturing Unit Busted in Adilabad

Deccan Chronicle  

Adilabad: The state government’s crackdown on spurious cotton seeds and their sales resulted in unearthing a manufacturing unit and seizing spurious cotton seeds at various places in the last three days in the erstwhile Adilabad district. The agriculture and police staff busted a fake cotton seeds manufacturing unit locally and found that these cotton seeds were sold with branded names …

3.5 tonns of spurious cotton seeds seized, suppliers nabbed
1 year, 9 months ago

3.5 tonns of spurious cotton seeds seized, suppliers nabbed

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: The Cyberabad special operations team in an operation with agricultural department officials busted two rackets that had prepared banned and spurious cottonseed to sell to farmers at Medchal and Chevella on Friday, and seized 3.35 tonnes of seeds and incriminating material worth ₹95 lakhs from them. The gangs procured the spurious seeds from Gujarat and Kurnool, repacked them in …

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