A certain Damodar Karkera of Hoige Bazaar had complained that kerosene oil and diesel were being stored illegally in a shop next to his house in Hoige Bazar. Officials of the Department raided the shop with the help of police and locked the shop post-raid.
Sharana Basappa, Deputy Director, Department of Food and Civil Supplies said that the shop owner was not be found during the raid. The officials waited for the owner to show up for some time and later locked the shop and deployed police vigil at the spot. Investigation will be carried out again with the help of the police, he said.
A similar raid was carried out at the same spot a year ago. Illegal stock of kerosene oil had been recovered then too. Kerosene oil provided by the government at a subsidized rate for boats is stocked illegally, Mr. Basappa said.
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