Police on Friday seized food grains meant for the public distribution system (PDS) and arrested two persons during a raid on a private godown at Gayaganda village under the Tarasingi police station in Ganjam district.
The accused was identified as two brothers, A Santosh Kumar Patra and Bauri Patra. They were allegedly buying the PDS food grains at low costs from people and selling the materials at high prices in the market by repacking it.
Acting on a tipoff, the Tarasingi police raided the godown, seized 20 quintals of PDS rice and two quintals of PDS wheat and nabbed the brother duo from the spot.
The seized materials were valued at around Rs 60,000. The accused duo has been involved in illegal sale of PDS food grains since a long time, informed the Tarasingi PS IIC.