India, Oct. 26 -- The Telangana Crime Investigation Department (CID) has registered three criminal cases and arrested 14 rice millers over the alleged diversion of government-allotted paddy and the supply of cheaper coarse rice in substitution of the Sanna Rakam variety to the Food Corporation of India (FCI) during Kharif 2025-26.

Officials searched 16 mills in Mulugu, Karimnagar and Nizamabad districts in the early hours of Sunday and confirmed irregularities at 14 of them. Of those arrested, seven are from Mulugu district, four from Nizamabad and three from Karimnagar.

The 16 mills reportedly delivered 3,385.820 metric tonnes of Doddu Rakam rice against Sanna Rakam allotments, causing the government a bonus-related loss estimated at R...