: Fishes have disappeared into thin air from clear water. Magic or not, this was made possible at an event supervised by the fisheries department last year, during the term of the BRS government, an investigation by has confirmed. The revelation comes after the Sheep Scam of the Telangana State Animal Husbandry and Fisheries Department during the BRS rule.
The fisheries department is held responsible for the missing fish accounts of last year’s fish prasadam distribution. A fraud of crores of rupees is suspected. A thorough probe by the government can help nail the guilty.
The Bathini family administering the fish prasadam for the past 174 years. Its beneficiaries are those suffering from bronchial ailments, who say they get relief from this simple ‘medication’. On the day of Miragam last year, the family administered the fish prasadam as usual.
The state fisheries department arranges the sale of the fish that are used as a means of cure. Last year, counters were arranged separately for tokens and sale of fishes at the venue, Numaish, the exhibition ground in Nampally. These counters were the sole authorized fish sellers — or fish seed — during the event.
Each fish kept there was sold for Rs 40. The fisheries department now says they sold only 45,719 fish. Evidence by TV visuals and other means shows lakhs of people took the fish prasadam.
However, the family itself admitted that they have administered the ‘fish treatment’ to around five lakh persons. The Prasad.
