Habiganj, Aug. 8 -- About 2000 sacks of rice have been seized while being smuggled out of a government godown here on Thursday night.

District administration seized the rice from a godown at 'Gorur bazar' area of the district town.

A three-member probe body has been formed with Additional District Magistrate Morjina Akter as its convener to investigate the incident. The other members of the committee are District Food Officer and OC (investigation) of Sadar police station.

Confirming the incident Additional Deputy Commissioner Tareq Mohammad Zakaria said, "The committee has been asked to submit probe report within 24 hours because this is the time for distributing VGF. It would be tough to distribute the rice among the poor people if t...