Digboi, June 4 -- A startling incident surfaced at Mamorani village under Assam's Digboi food and civil supply jurisdiction involving an arbitrary imposition of puja chanda from the PDS rice beneficiaries by an Fair Price Agent (FPS)agent on Tuesday.

According to allegations brought about by a few beneficiaries and Adivasi Student bodies of the nearby Gopenari unit in Assam, the fair price agent Mohesh Agarwal asked the beneficiaries to pay a donation for Ganesh Puja before issuing the rice entitled to beneficiaries free of cost for three months.

The FPS agent, operating under Tingrai Samabai Samity with license no. MRS/73/91/05/192/R, reportedly engaged in similar misconduct earlier, cheating innocent beneficiaries with a lesser quanti...