Vigilance officials raid seed firm

Guntur: Vigilance and Enforcement officials on Sunday raided Siddartha Seeds at Bonthapadu in Guntur district and seized 17 quintals of ICPL 85,063 red gram seeds, for which there are no records.

The market value of the seed stock is estimated at Rs 85,000. They stopped sale of red gram, green gram and black gram seeds of 14,000 quintals for not updating the records.

The VE officials observed that National Bio Seeds, Guntur is not maintaining records of the business. They stopped sale of 17 quintals green gram seeds. Market value of the stock is estimated at Rs 1.28 lakh. They collected the samples of the stock for conducting test.

Regional Vigilance and Enforcement Officer T Sobhamanjari led the raids. VE DSP PV Subba Reddy, Circle Inspector Anthony Raj and Tahsildar T Srinivasa Reddy were among those participated in the raids.