The former district manager of Marketing Federation (Markfed) posted in Janjgir Champa district, Jaidev Soni, accused of being involved in Rs 4 crore paddy pilferage at a procurement centre and absconding for the last nine months, was finally arrested from Mahasamund.
He was working there as district manager.Notably, a case of pilferage of paddy worth Rs 4 crore at a procurement centre was filed against Soni in the Janjgir Thana even as the accused was on the run for the last nine months. However, during this period the accused was secretly as district manager under the same department at Mahasamund. After arrest of the accused, police presented him in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate on Thursday. According to sources, Soni was posted as district manager in Janjgir Champa district when during a case of pilferage of paddy worth Rs 4 crore at the Markfed’s procurement Centre at Khokhrabhatha was detected by deputy registrar, Cooperative Institutions, during audit of the centre for 2011-12. After this, a case was filed against the in-charge of the procurement Centre Radhelal Rathor and district manager Jaidev Soni. In the meantime, Soni was transferred to Mahasamund district. After filing of the FIR against him the police was searching him for the last 9 months whithout the information that he was working as district manager at Mahasamund. Acting on a tip off, the police suddenly reached Mahasamund on Thursday and arrested Soni and presented him in the CJM court seeking his remand.