Illegal transportation: Flour truck owned by a 'bigwig' seized.

RAHIM YAR KHAN -- A team of food department and Punjab police foiled a bid to smuggle flour to other provinces and confiscated bags of flour loaded on a truck at the Kot Sabzal post on national highway at Punjab-Sindh border, some 58 kms from here.

Food department junior clerk Ahmed Amer Jamil said he stopped a truck (FDN-9690) laden with bags on Saturday night. On inquiring, truck driver Muhammad Afzal said he loaded the flour from Aleem Flour Mills [owned by president RYK Chamber of Commerce and Industry]. When he (Jamil) demanded permission slip and licence, Afzal could not show and presented a 'bogus' bill receipt on which Kot Sabzal police registered a case of illegal transportation of flour under sections of Punjab Foodstuff Control Act 1958-3 and 1958-6 and seized the truck.

The food department sources said three trucks from the mills owned by the RYKCCI president were also impounded in January 2020.

They said transportation of wheat and flour to Sindh and Balochistan especially from flour mills of Rahim Yar Khan was...