Karnal, April 17 -- Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU)'s Tikait faction on Wednesday claimed irregularities at new grain market in Karnal, after their delegation allegedly found a few wheat sacks weighing more than the prescribed limit by nearly 500-700 grams.

The farmer union's state president Rattan Mann said that he formed a six-member committee to visit the grain markets and review the arrangements for wheat procurement.

The BKU team visited the grain markets of Karnal and Kunjpura under the joint leadership of BKU district unit president Sahab Singh Bajwa and spokesperson Surender Sagwan.

Mann said that to check the weighing in grain markets, the team carried digital weighing scales, so that the act of tampering in weighing could be close...