MIRPURKHAS (February 27 2004): Two flour mills of Mirpurkhas were barred from selling their wheat stock outside the city after Food officials unearthed big quantity of wheat in a raid on Wednesday.

The mills, identified as Chundija Flour Mill and Memon Flour Mill, were raided by Deputy Director Food Mirpurkhas who prohibited them from selling their privately purchased wheat stock outside the Mirpurkhas after their failure to provide month wise purchase data of the wheat stocks to local Food Department.

Report said that on suspicion of storage of a big quantity of wheat bags in the flour mills, Deputy Director Food Mirpurkhas Saleem Raza Khero along with district food controller Mirpurkhas Nazeer Ahmed Memon conducted raids at Chundija Flour Mill and Memon Flour Mill and found 2700 wheat bags and 3900 bags respectively in the mills godowns. The wheat was reportedly purchased privately and was stored in the mills.

The Deputy Director Food bound the owners of both the flour mills not to sell their stock of wheat outside the Mirpurkhas.

The two mills were also issued show cause notices about the matter

Talking to newsmen, Saleem Raza Khero said that he also impounded a truck, loaded with flour bags of Chundija Flour Mills, transporting the stock to Hyderabad from Mirpurkhas.

He conceded that at present a flour crisis was being experienced and hoped that with start of March it will end as adequate quantity of wheat of new crop will come into the markets.

Courtesy Business Recorder