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The Guntur territory constabulary connected Saturday arrested a information defender connected the complaint of mounting occurrence to operation materials astatine a stockyard and labour campy successful the superior portion of Amaravati, resulting successful important harm to infrastructure supplies.
The constabulary seized cardinal evidence, including a tube utilized to bargain diesel, which was purportedly utilized successful the crime, a lighter and a mobile phone.
Superintendent of Police Vakul Jindal, connected Saturday, said the lawsuit was registered nether applicable provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS). A ailment was lodged by Sanapala Suresh, a elder task manager of Megha Engineering and Infrastructure Limited.
The incidental occurred astatine a stockyard located astatine the E-4 and N-12 Junction, Block-3, successful Zone-6 of the Amaravati superior metropolis area, nether Thullur mandal, astatine astir 10.30 p.m. connected March 23.
The installation was utilized to store cardinal operation materials, including HDPE PLB silicore conduits and ductile robust pipes, isolated from lodging astir 200 workers engaged successful infrastructure works.
The information of the tract had been outsourced to Rudra Corporate Security and Man Power Services of Guntur.
Acting upon an alert by an on-duty guard, Tippagudisa Ramu, the police, and CRDA officials, on with occurrence tenders, rushed to the spot. It took respective hours for 7 occurrence tenders to bring the flames nether power by 3 a.m. connected March 24. Initially treated arsenic an accidental fire, the lawsuit took a crook aft constabulary noted a signifier of akin incidents successful the region.
A peculiar probe squad was formed to probe the incident. Investigators soon zeroed successful connected Tippagudisa Ramu alias Arlappa, 53, who had been moving astatine the tract since June 2025. Evidence gathered done forensic investigation and witnesses’ accounts suggested that Tippagudisa Ramu had acceptable the installation connected fire.
The constabulary said the accused doused the operation materials with diesel stolen earlier and acceptable the installation connected fire, allegedly retired of vexation implicit the denial of permission and enactment pressure. Tippagudisa Ramu allegedly tried to mislead his colleagues by sharing misleading images earlier raising an alarm.
Further probe is on.
