Rajkot Nafed Groundnut Theft: Theft or scam of peanuts in Rajkot? The government shrugged its hands!

Rajkot Nafed Groundnut Theft: Theft or scam of peanuts in Rajkot? The government has pulled out its hands!

The theft of groundnut purchased at support price from NAFED in Rajkot district created a stir. The Giriraj warehouse was rented by the Central Warehousing Corporation near Jetalsar village in Jetpur taluka. In which 57 thousand 600 times the quantity of peanuts purchased by NAFED was kept... Between December 5, 2024, and December 16, 2024, 1,212 times the quality of peanuts in the Giriraj warehouse was stolen. There was a stir due to the theft of peanuts worth Rs 31 lakh 64 thousand 956..... The contract for the maintenance of this warehouse was handed over to an agency named Shriram Enterprise of Ahmedabad. Amit Kumar Gilla, technical assistant and warehouse manager of The Central Warehousing Corporation, lodged a police complaint. Physical verification is done every six months in the godown where nafed has kept the peanuts purchased by NAFED... After physical verification in December 2024, verification was carried out again in June. Meanwhile, on June 26, 2025, Amit Kumar Gilla was transferred and replaced by Sandeep Kumar Sripurnaram Kadwasara. While handing over the charge, both the officers conducted physical verification and found that 1 thousand 212 sacks were stolen. The police have started an investigation on the basis of the complaint. However, the biggest question is whether the peanuts have actually been stolen or there has been a scam... Why were there no CCTV cameras in the godown... If there was a lack of CCTV cameras then why was the warehouse rented out... Why were CCTV cameras installed in the warehouse after the theft? The question is why the peanuts were stolen despite being a security guard. It is worth noting that in the past too, there have been allegations of playing in the purchase of support prices. So there has been a paddy scam in Viramgam too.