Kalaburagi, June 28 -- Disgruntled senior MLA BR Patil, who has increasingly distanced himself from the ruling dispensation, has fired a fresh salvo - this time targeting sugar factories in Kalaburagi district over alleged largescale irregularities in sugarcane procurement. Patil, who earlier rocked the political boat by alleging corruption in the Rajiv Gandhi Rural Housing Scheme, has now turned his ire toward what he called "systematic cheating" of farmers by sugar factories. Speaking to reporters, Patil said that cane growers are being duped through manipulation of weights at the procurement stage. "Farmers are being looted with impunity. Factories are tampering with weights and paying farmers less than what they are owed," Patil claimed...