700 kg of rice seized in Kodungaiyur, one arrested. Kodungaiyur police got a cue that proportion rice was being smuggled in the Kodungaiyur Thiruvalluvar Nagar range in Chennai.
The Kodungaiyur police went to the zone this evening to examine. Sukumar, an inhabitant of Kodungaiyur, was captured on suspicion of having 28 bundles of ration rice in a plastic pack, which weighed almost 700 kg.
He was 40 years old and during interrogation, he said that he was buying rice in bulk at different places in North Chennai and offering it to other states.