The Chittoor police seized red sanders logs with an estimated market value of more than ₹ 1 crore and arrested 15 persons on charge of smuggling in two separate incidents on the outskirts of Chittoor municipal corporation in the early hours of Thursday.
According to police, the accused used an ambulance vehicle for transporting the precious logs to Tamil Nadu.
Addressing the media, Superintendent of Police Y. Rishant Reddy and Deputy SP (Law and Oder) N. Sudhakar Reddy said that a special party was conducting vehicle checks at the Mapakshi Cross on the Chittoor-Vellore highway on Wednesday night.
