Punjab Government, in the recent past, has registered five cases with regard to spurious pesticides used to control whitefly pest attack on cotton in the Malwa belt of the State.
Stating this, Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal on Thursday directed that samples of pesticide used to tackle whitefly pest be taken from various pesticides distributors across the State.
He also directed Punjab Director General of Police (DGP) Sumedh Singh Saini to register cases right up to the level of manufacturers of the spurious pesticides.
A high level committee has also been constituted under ADGP Crime, IG Intelligence, IG Bathinda and DIGs of Bathinda and Ferozepur to take appropriate action in the matter. The Agriculture department has also been directed to plug sale and storage of spurious pesticides. The Agriculture department has taken more than 100 samples from ludhiana, 162 from Bathinda, 10 from Muktsar, eight from Fazilka, five from Mansa and six from Ferozepur.