In a shocking incident, a ration scam of around Rs 50 crore was unearthed in Mhow tehsil of Indore district on Saturday. An FIR has been lodged against all those involved in the scam.
Collector Manish Singh reached the Mhow SDM office on Saturday and exposed the scam. More than 600 quintal rice of PDS was recovered from the warehouse of Joyful Traders.
Considering the seriousness of the case, an inquiry team was formed and in the prima facie fact was revealed that Mohanlal Aggarwal, along with his associate businessmen Ayush Agarwal and Mukesh Aggarwal did manipulation in the ration meant for distribution at fair price shops.
During initial investigation, it was found that their transport bills were sent by Mohanlal Aggarwal to the fair price shops and the receipt of the full bills was signed while only 8-10 quintal of the goods reached at the ration shops (fair price shops).
This grain scam is a State- level scam and is connected to various districts of MP including Balaghat Mandla and Neemuch. Main accused and mastermind of grain scam is a transporter of MP state civil supply corporation Mohan Lal Agrawal who had the contract of supplying PDS grains to different controls but the grains bag after reaching to the control were again sent back to the private godown of Mohanlal Agrawal by the control
owners. Mohanlal Agrawal private go down is given to him on rent by Mhow Krishi Upaj mandi and is located adjacent to MP state civil supply corporation go down.
Few days back a complaint of people of Mhow not receiving the grains reached to Mhow SDM Abhilash Mishra who in turn suddenly examined the private go down of Mohanlal Agrawal and around 650 bags of government rice was confiscated at his go down. Further when SDM Abhilash Mishra visited the different control shops of Mhow tehsil area he found that the quality of rice at the control were poor and it was different from the good quality of rice issued by the government for public distribution.
On further investigation it was found that Mohanlal Agrawal his sons Mohit and Tarun Agrawal and other two businessman of Mhow Ayush Agrawal owner of firm Ayus Food and Lokesh Agrawal owner of firm Lokesh Kumar Sardanand and owners of four different Government control use to work like a team and use to manipulate the Government grains and were also sending it to different businessman of Mandla Neemuch and Balaghat for sale in open market.
The administration is also investigating the role of employees of food department, Krishi Upaj mandi and MP state civil supply because without their support the grain scam of such a magnitude is not possible.
The administration has registered FIR against Mohanlal Agrawal his sons Mohit and Tarun, two business man Ayush Agrawal and Lokesh Agrawal and owner of 4 control shops in Kishanganj and Badgonda police stations of Mhow
tehsil.