During his stint with the task force, the head constable allegedly abused his position to establish contacts with the Red Sanders kingpin and entered the smuggling business.
During his stint with the task force, the head constable allegedly abused his position to establish contacts with the Red Sanders kingpin and entered the smuggling business.
A Head Constable with Andhra Pradesh Special Police (APSP) 11 th The battalion, which was suspended from duty on charges of colluding with red sandalwood smugglers, was arrested on Monday for smuggling rare wood in Kadada.
Kuraku Venkatasubbaiah, 45, a resident of Budvel town, served in the Red Sanders Anti-Smuggling Task Force in Tirupati on deputation and was later returned to his parent unit APSP. During his tenure with the task force, he allegedly abused his position to establish contacts with the Red Sanders kingpin and entered the smuggling business for illegal gains.
caught red handed
The Badvel Rural Police on Monday arrested Venkatasubbaiah, who was preparing to smuggle the felled trees from Lakkavaripalli village of Gopavaram mandal. Superintendent of Police KKN Amburajan told reporters that the tainted police officer was also arrested once by Nagarjunasagar police, sent to judicial remand and released on bail, forcing him to be suspended from duty.
Mr. Amburajan lauded the Sub-Divisional Police Officers Madhusudan Gaur (Maidukur), Chenchu Babu (Gaction Area), Task Force Circle Inspector Nagabhushanam and Budwell Rural Inspector P. Hanumantha Naik for cracking down on the criminals.
Similarly, the Chennur police arrested Kola Baburam of Prakasam district, who is an accused in several red sandalwood smuggling cases in Prakasam, Cuddapah, Guntur, Kurnool, Anantapur, Tirupati and Vijayawada police limits. The police found him waiting for a vehicle on the Kadapa-Tadipatri road, but got suspicious when he tried to flee the spot.