Red sanders worth ₹5 cr.seized, 8 operatives nabbed
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Chittoor police on Monday nabbed eight purple sanders operatives and seized 4 tonnes of treasured wooden worth over ₹5 crore, together with two lorries and a automobile, in two separate incidents.
Addressing a press convention right here, Superintendent of Police S. Senthil Kumar stated within the wake of spurt within the purple sanders smuggling exercise from Chittoor district in direction of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, particular events had been fashioned to sort out the goings-on.
As a part of this, Deputy SP (Puttur) T.D. Yashwant and his staff led the operation at Taduku forest examine publish on the outskirts of Puttur within the early hours of Monday. Acting on dependable data {that a} lorry laden with purple sanders logs was on the transfer in direction of Chennai from the (*8*) hills close to Tirupati, the raid social gathering rushed to the spot and intercepted the automobile on the examine publish. When the lorry driver tried to present a slip to the police personnel, the latter chased the automobile for a distance of two kilometers, and arrested six operatives and seized the lorry with 103 logs.
In the second incident, Deputy SP (Chittoor) N. Sudhakar Reddy and his staff led the operation at Kodigutta Cross, close to Murakambattu, on the Chittoor-Bengaluru NH on Monday morning, intercepting a lorry and a automobile, each carrying 65 logs. Two individuals had been nabbed on this operation.
Meetings on
Mr. Senthil Kumar stated that there had been a sequence of coordination conferences among the many SPs of the Rayalaseema districts, susceptible to purple sanders smuggling and providing transit routes to neighbouring States. “We have also undertaken commando operations with both district police and the Special Enforcement Bureau personnel to tackle the red sanders smuggling menace, apart from intensifying night vigil and highway patrolling, and invoking of PD Acts against the notorious offenders,” the SP stated.
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