Chandigarh, Oct. 14 -- Police have booked the owner of two rice mills in Kotkapura's Hari Nau village and five others after detecting four tractor-trailers loaded with paddy from Rajasthan.

Sharing details, agriculture minister Gurmeet Singh Khudian said the FIR was registered under Sections 318 (4) and 61(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, and Section 7 of the Essential Commodities Act on the complaint of the Markfed branch manager.

In response to this incident, Khudian, along with Punjab Mandi Board chairman Harchand Singh Barsat, held a meeting with all district mandi officers (DMOs) and chief agriculture officers (CAOs) on Monday.

Stern directives were issued not to allow paddy from outside the state for sale in Punjab, particularl...