The State Government had filed FIRs against a total of 32 defaulting custom millers under various Sections of the IPC in three years from 2012-13 to 2014-15.
This was revealed from the information furnished by Food Supplies and Consumer Welfare Minister Sanjay Dasburma in response to a question of Congress MlA Bhujabal Majhi on Saturday.
According to the information, only nine of the 32 millers were arrested and the rest couldn’t be arrested because of advance bails and ‘no coercive action’ order obtained by them from the High Court.
While FIRs had been lodges against 15 millers in 2012-13, only three of them arrested. In 2013-14, 16 millers had been booked and six of them arrested.