CWC staff accused of siphoning off foodgrain

VADODARA: Employees of Central Warehousing Corporation (CWC) have been accused of having siphoned off 44,000 kilograms of foodgrain from the corporation's godown in the city. A police complaint has been registered in the matter by CWC manager at Fatehgunj police station. Five accused, including a former CWC manager, have been named in the FIR.
According to the police complaint, during a regular inspection at CWC earlier this year, a senior official from Ahmedabad found that 881 sacks of foodgrain were missing.The audit was done from February 2011 to March 31, 2012. Of the total 68,229 sacks of foodgrain, 881 were missing. An internal inquiry was done in CWC and it surfaced that five of its employees had siphoned off the grain.
"We are investigating the complaint. It would be difficult to say at this moment where the accused sold off the grain. We will first collect all the evidence and then question the accused," said Fatehgunj police inspector Nisarg Patel.