KOTRI:A food department team seized a trailer loaded with 775 smuggled wheat bags worth millions of rupees in operation at the Jamshoro Tool Plaza on Thursday.
On the direction of Deputy Commissioner Jamshoro Captain (R) Fariduddin Mustafa, a food department team, headed by District Food Controller (DFC) Faraz Alam, in a raid on the Jamshoro Tool Plaza seized the 775 smuggled wheat bags being smuggled from Sukkur to Karachi. However, the trailer driver Mohammed Ramazan managed to flee, leaving vehicle on the spot.
The DFO said that wheat was being illegally transferred from Sukkur to Karachi despite inter-district ban on the wheat movement. The confiscated wheat bags would be deposited in the official warehouse of the food department. The trailer was being shifted to Bholari warehouse with the help of Jamshoro police.