chennai a ration shop in madipakkam allegedly tried to smuggle rice to a private farm in porur in broad daylight on tuesday videos shot by toi lensman show workers discreetly loading rice bags from the back door of the ration shop into a private minitruckstaff at the madipakkam ration shop claimed that there were no takers for these bags and were being sold to farms in the citys suburbs for rs 120 per bag in other areas excess rice bags and ration were distributed to nearby migrant workers but in madipakkam there are not many such workers we cant return them either to avoid paying out for the losses from our pocket we are selling them to farms which use the rice to feed the birds the staff said refusing to reveal his name though he continued to deny that it was sold in the black market the staff said that the money was collected to pay the workers involved in loadingunloading and transportation of the bags in minitrucks when asked for a clarification about this tamil selvi joint commissioner of tamil nadu civil supplies and consumer protection department said that there was no such provision to sell excess rice bags and assured to look into the issuesmugglers of ration rice can be booked under tamil nadu essential commodities act 2011 where the penalty to be paid was set based on the market value of the vehicle used for smuggling