Seven booked as vigilance team seizes tractors, sand in Hanamkonda crackdown

Seven persons were booked aft Vigilance and Enforcement officials intercepted tractors transporting soil illegally during a astonishment way cheque successful parts of Hanamkonda territory connected Wednesday.

Officials seized 7 tractors and astir 35 tonnes of soil valued astatine astir ₹35,000 during the cognition successful the outskirts of Jujnoor Vagu and Dandepally. The vehicles are estimated to beryllium worthy astir ₹28 lakh. Investigators recovered that soil was being excavated during the day, stockpiled successful adjacent fields and transported illegally astatine night.