Jagtial mills, ₹80 crore short — on paper
A report says Vigilance checks at three Jagtial mills flagged about 34,400 tonnes of paddy “diverted”, worth roughly ₹80 crore. The documents that would prove it are not public yet. The mills haven’t answered — and neither has the state put the papers out.
The reported shortfall remains documented but not yet publicly substantiated.
According to a Telugu daily’s account, a Telangana Vigilance team checked three rice mills in Thakkallapalli, Jagtial Rural mandal, across Wednesday–Thursday and tallied Civil Supplies allocations against stock and CMR returns from 2022 onward. The report says officials identified shortages adding up to about 34,400 metric tonnes of paddy — valued at ₹39 crore for older tender paddy and ₹41 crore for recent seasons, roughly ₹80 crore in all. It says a complaint was filed with Jagtial police on Friday evening.
That is the newspaper’s report of what officials “found”. The inspection report, stock statements, seizure memos, complaint copy, FIR number and sections are not publicly available in the material reviewed. The three mills are named — Lakshmi Balaji, Sri Abhayanjaneya Sai, and Lakshmi Ganapathi — but the owners are not. No primary statement from Vigilance, Civil Supplies, the collector or Jagtial police is on record here.
The implied rates (about ₹2,230–₹2,380 per quintal) line up with the paper’s arithmetic, but it isn’t clear if “value” means procurement price, exposure, or includes milling and infrastructure costs. The same report floats that the number could top ₹100 crore after add‑ons — an estimate, not a finding.
Bottom line: there is a serious allegation on the table and an initial complaint reported, but the proof is still in the file the public cannot see. Publish the inspection and recovery orders, name the sections, and say what’s being done mill‑wise — then the ₹80 crore claim will stand on more than a headline. Until then it’s a preliminary estimate, not a proven scam.