Perni Nani’s Wife Booked for Missing PDS Rice

Vijayawada: Police on Wednesday registered an FIR against Perni Jayasudha, wife of former minister and YSRC leader Perni Nani, over the alleged misappropriation of 185 metric tonnes of PDS rice stored in a godown owned by Jayasudha in Machilipatnam.

Bandar Rural Police have registered the FIR comes in the wake of a complaint by Krishna district Civil Supplies Corporation assistant manager Kotireddy against Jayasudha and the godown manager Manasa Teja over the missing PDS rice from the godown at Potlapalem village of Machilipatnam.

According to police, Perni Nani constructed a godown in his wife Jayasudha's name and rented it out to the Civil Supplies Corporation as a buffer godown to store PDS rice.

During the annual inspection, civil supply officials discovered a shortage of 185 tonnes of PDS rice from within the stock.

It has been reported that Jayasudha, in a letter to the Civil Supplies Department, has claimed that a faulty weighbridge led to the rice shortage. She has assured officials in the letter that she would pay the full value of the missing rice to the government.