The Lokayukta police conducted raids against five officials who were attached with the Karnataka Food and Civil Supplies Corporation Ltd, Shimoga, during 2011-12 on Wednesday in connection with a case of misappropriation of Rs. 12.08 crore-worth foodgrains procured under the Minimum Support Price Operation (MSPO) in the same period.
The raids were conducted as part of the investigation into a case the Shimoga Lokayukta police registered recently, based on a complaint lodged by one Y.B. Chandrakanth. He had alleged that officials of the Karnataka Food and Civil Supplies Corporation Ltd. had helped a private firm to misappropriate 850 tonnes of paddy.
The officials who were raided were K.Kodandarama, District Manager, Karnataka Food and Civil Supplies Corporation Ltd., Shimoga; C.K. Shivanna, former Managing Director, Karnataka Food and Civil Supplies Corporation Ltd., now with Lake Development Authority, Bangalore; Ramachandra Raoji, former district manager, Shimoga, now with the Forest Department, Bellary; and H.S. Nagaraj and V. Lingaiah, senior assistants with the Karnataka Food and Civil Supplies Corporation Ltd., Shimoga.
