Officials seized 17 trucks carrying about 12,500 bags of paddy from Bihar at a petrol pump in Shambhu barrier near Rajpura, around 40 km from here, Punjab Food and Civil Supplies Minister Bharat Bhushan Ashu said on Thursday.
Following a complaint lodged by the department, the Punjab Police have registered a case.
"It has been brought to my notice that, earlier in the day, 28 trucks of paddy/rice have come into Punjab through the same barrier," the Minister said.
In the past one month, the food and civil supplies department, through a series of raids, has unearthed nearly 2.5 lakh bags of paddy and 2 lakh bags of previous year's rice set to be pumped into Punjab during the kharif marketing season (2018-19).
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