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The Annamayya territory constabulary connected Wednesday nighttime arrested 9 reddish sanders smuggling operatives from Tamil Nadu, and recovered 12 logs weighing 344 kgs and worthy astir ₹35 lakhs.
Speaking to the media, Superintendent of Police (SP) Dheeraj Kunubilli said that acting connected reliable information, a peculiar enactment raided a wood determination astatine Machireddipalle of T. Sundupalle mandal, and the operatives were nabbed portion they were moving the logs to an attack roadworthy constituent adjacent to the wood roadworthy successful a bid to load the logs into a waiting car. The Red Sanders Task Force unit besides joined the raid, the SP said. Though the trespassers tried to fly nether the screen of darkness, the alert unit overpowered them, nabbing each nine.
The accused were identified arsenic Bakiaraj Annamalai, Rajith Kumar Govindan, Saminathan G, Suresh Kumar Shiv Kumar, Duraisami R, Raja Mani, Parashanth Chandran, Raja Vijay Kumar, and Thirumalai Chinnayan. All the 9 arrested hailed from the north-western districts of Tamil Nadu.
The SP said that further forces were deployed astatine the Seshachalam hills of Rajampeta part to flush retired the smuggling operatives.
