Overview

• Director-General of Police Jitender announced that cases against counterfeit seed vendors will be booked under the Preventive Detention Act.
• A district-level Joint Task Force with police, agriculture and seeds corporation officials has been deployed to target fake and unapproved herbicide-tolerant seeds.
• Recent operations in Vikarabad, Gadwal, Rachakonda, Warangal and Ramagundam yielded large hauls of spurious seeds and illegally manufactured pesticides.
• Authorities are invoking the Seeds Act 1966, Environmental Protection Act 1986, Essential Commodities Act and relevant IPC provisions to pursue offenders.
• Properties used for manufacturing, storing or selling counterfeit seeds are being seized under Section 152(1)(b) of BNSS to deter future violations.