Karnal, Nov. 14 -- Days after the Karnal police registered four criminal cases related to alleged irregularities in the ongoing paddy procurement, the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) on Thursday accused the Haryana government of shielding the culprits of a Rs.4K-crore paddy procurement scam and turning the probe into a "sham".

The union demanded a high-level judicial investigation into what it called a massive procurement scam, along with the suspension and imprisonment of officials found guilty.

Led by state president Rattan Mann, BKU members staged a protest in Karnal wearing black clothes and later submitted a memorandum to the district administration.

Mann levelled serious allegations against senior officials, claiming that those accus...