NOB- Suryapet news: District SP Narasimha IPS disclosed the details of the case at a media conference organized by the District Police Office. The SP was accompanied by Additional SP Ravinder Reddy, DSP Prasanna Kumar, CCS Inspector Siva Kumar, Tirumalagiri SI Venkateswarlu, CCS SI Harikrishna, CCS, Tirumalari PS staff. The Tirumalagiri Police on 03.06.2025 arrested the accused who was manufacturing and selling fake cotton seeds and two other accused who were carrying and selling them in the Tirumalagiri mandal of Suryapet district on reliable information from the rented land of A1 accused. The police seized 308 kg of fake cotton seeds worth about Rs. 4,62,000/- lakhs and the equipment used to manufacture them. Cr.No.116/2025 U/Sec 318(4) BNS, Sec 7 of EC Act. Case registered under Sec 19 of Seeds Act 1966, Sec 15(1) of EP Act 1986. If fake seeds are sold to farmers in a way that causes loss to agriculture, cases will be registered under the Indian Penal Code, Essential Commodities Misuse Act, Animal Act, and PD will be registered, he said. He urged that not a single farmer should suffer due to the difficulty of buying such fake seeds.
Details of the accused
A-1 Singarapu Yadagiri Swamy, age 50 years, Occ Agriculture R/o Kotilingala Colony, Tirumalagiri Municipality and Mandal, Suryapet District.
A-2. Lodangi Naveen, aged 25 years, Occ Agriculture R/o Nandapuram Village, Tirumalagiri Municipality and Mandal, Suryapet District
A-3. Chittaluri Somanarayana, aged 60 years, Occ Agriculture R/o Chirragudur Village, Addagudur Mandal, Yadadri Bhonagiri District
A man named Rangaiah, the father of Singarapu Yadagiriswamy from Tirumalagiri town and mandal of Suryapet district, was renting the lands around the outskirts of Tirumalagiri and cultivating cotton crop. He saw on YouTube that he could separate the seeds from the harvested cotton and make them into cotton seeds. He wanted to make money by selling them to farmers by believing that they were original BT III seeds. As per his plan, he extracted cotton seeds from the cotton he had grown and brought the necessary equipment for making fake cotton seeds, i.e. a 3 phase ½ HP motor, drums for mixing it, sulfuric acid cans and Shine Star cans to make the cotton seeds color. He placed them on the leased agricultural land without anyone suspecting anything and made about 308 KG of fake cotton seeds. He met Naveen of Nandapuram village and Somanarayana of Chirragudur village, who were his acquaintances, and said that he had cotton seeds, which he had prepared, which would yield more, and would sell at a lower rate than the company for Rs. 1500 per packet. He told them to take them and sell them at a higher rate. He initially gave 10 kg each. They sold them and said they wanted more. So he sold another 50 kg to Lodangi Naveen and 40 kg of fake seeds to Chittaluri Somanarayana. Acting on a tip-off, the Tirumalagiri police raided the agricultural lands and houses of the accused and seized the fake cotton seeds ready for sale, along with the equipment used to prepare them, and arrested the three accused.
PD Act if fake seeds are sold: If fake seeds are sold by deceiving the farmer, the PD Act will be implemented against those who sell and supply fake seeds. Anyone who sells fake seeds should provide information, and the details of those who provide information will be kept confidential, said Suryapet District SP K. Narasimha IPS. In the district, the CCS team works along with the Law and Order. Police for the prevention and identification of fake seeds, we are working in coordination with the agricultural authorities, we have also focused on the accused who have committed such crimes in the past, the SP warned that the PD Act will be applicable if they commit crimes by habitually supplying fake seeds.The SP congratulated the Tirumalagiri police officers and staff for their excellent work in the case of seizure of fake seeds, including CCS Inspector Shiva Kumar, SI Harikrishna, ASI Venkanna, Head Constables Vidyasagar Rao, Rajender Reddy, Srinivas, Karnakar, Constables Anand, Mallesh, Satish, Shiva Krishna, Prabhakar, and Women Home Guard Manjula.
