Cheating case against five Kaithal rice mill directors

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Kaithal, December 10

The police have registered a case of cheating under Sections 420, 406 and 120-B of the IPC against five directors and two guarantors of Vishnu Overseas Private Ltd, a local rice exporting firm.

The rice miller had allegedly misappropriated rice worth Rs 7.13 crore and Rs 66.43 lakh remained unpaid as holding charges.

A case had been registered after a complaint lodged by Virender Singh, General Manager, Haryana Warehousing Corporation in Kaithal, against company directors Subhash Mittal, Suresh Mittal, Sat Narain Mittal, Vishnu Bhagwan Mittal and Yogesh Mittal, and guarantors Suresh Kumar and Deepak Kumar.

According to Virender, the warehousing corporation had allotted 12,598 MT of grade Paddy to messers Vishnu Overseas Company in Kaithal during the last crop season.

According to the terms of agreement, the company, after processing was to return 8,440 MT rice to the government agency by March 2017. Despite increasing the time limit twice, the company could return only 6,097 MT rice to the government and failed to return the remaining 2,343 MT of rice. The department on October 13 , 2017, issued a notice to the directors of the company to return the rice, but they neither return the rice nor deposited the balance. Virender alleged that on October 8, a departmental committee went to the mill premises for verification of stocks, but no paddy or rice was found in the stock.