The district police on Sunday busted a 13-member extortion gang led by Hyderabad-based Sunkara Prasad Naidu and confiscated a country-made 9 mm pistol along with 16 rounds of bullets, an SUV, a sedan, a two-wheeler and ₹6.50 lakh in cash from them on Sunday.
Superintendent of Police Fakkeerappa Kaginelli at a press conference said that Sunkara Prasad Naidu, 50, a known criminal, kidnapped Konanki Venkatesh of G. Kottala village in Guntakal mandal on July 20 and demanded ₹1 crore from his family members for his release. Police, however, managed to nab all the kidnappers from a hillock near Dhone in Nandyal district and set Venkatesh free on Sunday.
Venkatesh’s son informed the police about the kidnap. The kidnappers were told that Venkatesh’s son would give money to the kidnappers at his house. When some of the kidnappers came to his house, the police nabbed them and tracked the remaining gang members. “This was the second incident of extortion committed by the gang at gunpoint in the last month,” said Mr. Kaginelli.
