GJ-GROUNDNUT-INQUIRY

Guj announces judicial inquiry into fires at groundnut godowns
    Ahmedabad, Aug 18 (PTI) Chief Minister Vijay Rupani
today announced an inquiry commission headed by a retired High
Court judge to probe cases of fires in godowns storing
groundnuts.
    A state government release said that Justice (retired)
H K Rathod would head the commission set up under the
Commission of Inquiry Act.
    The move comes after the opposition Congress demanded
a judicial probe into what it claimed was a groundnut
procurement scam.
    The state, in the past few weeks, has seen several
instances of fire in godowns stocking groundnuts procured by
the Centre's National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing
Federation of India (NAFED).
    While groundnuts worth Rs 3 crore was gutted at a
warehouse at Sapar in Rajkot district in May this year,
another fire destroyed stock worth Rs 28 crore in the
district's Gondal taluka in February. PTI KA PD
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