Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 12: Demanding the transfer of investigations in the infamous food grains scam of R.S Pura to Crime Branch and confiscation of the property of absconding businessmen who played fraud with the poor farmers, Harsh Dev Singh, chairman JKNPP today lambasted the local administration for their indifference and disregard for apprehending the culprits involved in the massive fraud of gargantuan proportions involving poor border area agriculturalists.
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Addressing the media persons, here, today Harsh Dev Singh said that the poor farmers of R.S Pura, Suchetgarh, Ramgarh, Bishnah and Akhnoor had been robbed of their produce by a well knit mafia which needed to be busted at the earliest. He said that despite the continued protests of the aggrieved farmers for tracing the absconding businessman, no action had been taken by the administration. He said that farmers claimed to have been robbed of their food grains worth over hundred crores but the police administration had failed to apprehend the culprits. He said that not only was the case required to be handed over to Crime Branch as desired by the aggrieved farmers but the culprits needed to be declared as proclaimed offenders.
He called for confiscation and seizure of the property of the fraudsters and its disposal so as to satisfy the claims of agitating farmers. He regretted that despite assurance of the Divisional Commissioner Jammu made to the delegation of affected farmers last month to hand over investigations to Crime Branch, no action had been initiated thus creating huge resentment amongst the affected farmers. He cautioned to gherao the Civil and Police administration in case the investigations through CB were not initiated immediately and absconding culprits apprehended and brought to book at the earliest.
Harbhajan Singh and Paramjit representatives of the aggrieved farmers revealed that “the offenders who have been running their firms collected paddy and wheat from hundreds of farmers on the assurance that they would be paid remunerative prices for their produce. The farmers were lured by the firms operating their business through some residents of R.S Pura, to deposit their paddy and wheat during 2018-19 and 2019-20 on the promise that they would be appropriately compensated at rates higher than those prevailing in the local market.
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