The Jharsuguda police on Wednesday arrested five persons of Jharkhand State who were allegedly involved in the misappropriation of 800 bags of PDS wheat.
The accused were identified as Jiten Ganju (23) of Madhania village of Chhatra district, Kamlesh Ganju (28) of Mahutoli village of Chhatra district as truck drivers and Chandra Mohan Kumar Sahu (47) of Jorag of Gumla district, Dinesh Kumar Sahu (23) of Patrapali of Gumla district and Balram Sahu (31) of Nagfeni of Gumla district in Jharkhand.
The drivers illegally transported the loaded PDS wheat bags from Jharsuguda FCI Balijori to Gumla district. However, they had left two trucks with numbers OR-23C-2740 and OD-23D-8065 beside a petrol pump at Biramitrapur.
FCI transporter Subhash lodha lodged an FIR in the Jharsuguda police station on July 7 2017.
Based on FIR, a police team visited the suspected place in Gumla and seized one bag of PDS wheat and found about 50 empty PDS wheat bags.
Further investigation in the case is under progress, said SDPO Parshuram Sethi.