KOLLAM: In a checking conducted in a house at Palllithottam H&C house compound on Saturday, police on Monday recovered 390 kg Ration rice stored in eight sacks. They also found ten sacks of ration grains stocked inside a nearby flour mill.

Police arrested Pallithottam native Pookunju (55) for hoarding rice in his house and Pallithottam Fathima Flour mill owner Farooq (70) for illegally storing ration grains in his Flour mill. Here police found wheat in one sack and rice in nine sacks.

The police conducted the search, after they got information about the illegal storage of ration items. Pookunju told the police that he had took ration rice from different people after paying them money.

The police have shifted the seized items to Pallithottam police station after informing the Civil Supplies department.