Telangana: Raids on Bowenpally agriculture market

HYDERABAD: Raids were conducted by the

Department of Legal Metrology

, Telangana on a

weighbridge

inside Bowenpally Agriculture Market in

Secunderabad Cantonment

.

Sanjay Krishna, inspector, legal metrology, who carried out the raids based on a complaint, found that the weight of goods was being recorded in a wrong way.

Officials seized the records, weights and measuring devices from the weighbridge and served notices to the grade secretary of the agriculture market. The weighbridge is meant to weigh loads of goods along with the vehicles. Staff of the weighbridge calculated the load carried by the vehicle by weighing both empty and loaded material.