TIRUPATI: In a big bust,
Chittoor police
arrested 13 red sanders smugglers and seized Rs 2 crore worth logs and vehicles on Sunday.
Acting on specific inputs, the special teams, along with Piler urban police, conducted vehicle checks near Ponthala Cheruvu crossroads in the wee hours of Sunday. During the exercise, cops intercepted and seized three vehicles including a truck laden with a large consignment of red sanders logs. Cops seized 115 red sanders logs weighing 3.5 tonnes and worth Rs 1.5 crore along with a truck and two cars.
The accused were K
Surendra Reddy
(27), V Ashok Kumar Reddy (40), A Murali (29), Y Ramanjaneyulu (41), T Vilkesh (26), S Sanjeev (24), G Vijayakumar, S Sakthivel, R Vijaya Kumar, D Yelumalai, M Vel Swamy, C Sriramulu Venkatesh and R Hari Murthy.
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