Andhra: Five including three AR constables arrested in connection with a highway robbery

TIRUPATI: Five persons including three

armed reserve constables

were arrested in connection with a highway robbery reported along the Renigunta-Vadamalapeta highway in

Chittoor district

on August 7.

Renigunta rural

CI G Amarnath Reddy

told reporters that B Ravi Kumar and Shaik Siraj, AR constables working in Tirupati and O Ramanjaneyulu attached to AR-Kadapa, teamed up with T Venkatapathi Raju and E Naresh, waylaid a car posing as policemen, near

Badrappanaidu Kandriga

on Vadamalpeta road on September 7.

After assaulting the inmates of the car identified as

K Chenchaiah Naidu

and R Subramanyam, the gang fled away in the stolen car.

Renigunta police who registered a case and took up investigation, managed to arrest all the five including the three AR constables on Tuesday.

The police department has placed all the three constables under suspension with immediate effect.