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Telangana : ₹238 cr. CMR dues pending against 38 millers

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Posted on August 18, 2026

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Author­it­ies have registered seven crim­inal cases and invoked the Pre­vent­ive Deten­tion (PD) Act in one case against ‘errant’ rice millers in Ped­dap­alli dis­trict for default­ing on deliv­ery of cus­tom-milled rice (CMR) in the recent past.

Accord­ing to official sources, cus­tom-milled rice dues worth ₹238 crore are pending against 38 millers in the dis­trict. Ped­dap­alli Col­lector Koya Sree

Har­sha said pan­chana­mas were being con­duc­ted at 31 rice mills to verify gov­ern­ment paddy stocks, CMR deliv­er­ies and related records.

He said millers were respons­ible for deliv­er­ing CMR against the paddy allot­ted to their mills to the Food Cor­por­a­tion of India (FCI)/Tel­an­gana State Civil Sup­plies Cor­por­a­tion Lim­ited (TGSCSCL) as per norms. Any default in cus­tom-milled rice deliv­ery, diver­sion or other irreg­u­lar­it­ies would be viewed ser­i­ously, he warned.

Officials had been instruc­ted to con­duct con­tinu­ous inspec­tions and pan­chana­mas at rice mills. The Rev­enue Recov­ery Act would be invoked to recover the dues, besides filing crim­inal cases against those found guilty of divert­ing or mis­ap­pro­pri­at­ing gov­ern­ment paddy, he added.

Two arres­ted

Two rice millers were arres­ted by the Sul­tanabad police on Monday for allegedly fail­ing to deliver cus­tom-milled rice (CMR) to the gov­ern­ment, res­ult­ing in an estim­ated loss of ₹24.18 crore to the State exchequer, police said. The arres­ted per­sons were identified as Renikunta Madhu, 46, and R. Ravinder Reddy, 48, both res­id­ents of Val­lam­patla vil­lage. The accused allegedly failed to hand over the cus­tom-milled rice to the gov­ern­ment against the paddy allot­ted to their mill for milling dur­ing the 2023-24 crop year, police added.

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