Tirupati court sentences three red sanders smugglers to one-year imprisonment

TIRUPATI: A Tirupati court on Friday, sentences three red sanders smugglers to undergo one year rigorous imprisonment and slapped a fine of Rs.10000 on each smuggler.

The court added that if the smugglers fail to pay Rs.10000 each, they will have to undergo three more months of rigorous imprisonment.

According to Tirupati SP L Subba Rayudu, Mittapalli Dhanjaya Reddy (36), Tupakula Ramachandra (45) and Tupakula Venkataramayya (50) were arrested by the Bhakrapet police on charges of red sanders smuggling on 26th September of 2014 near an ST colony at Chinnagottigallu mandal.

After charges against them were proved during a decade long trial, the local red sanders court at Tirupati pronounced its judgement in the case on Friday and sentenced the three smugglers to undergo rigorous imprisonment for one year.

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