Mangaluru: Around 10,000 kg of PDS rice worth of ₹2.6 lacs was seized by the Bantawal police when it was illegally being transported from BC road to Kerala.
Acting on a tip-off that a rice was being shifted from a truck to another when a police team led by DySP Dr. Arun Kumar, raided and seized 200 bags of each weighing 50kg.
However, the truck drivers managed to escape from the scene.