TIRUPATI: Two con men — who duped 28 elected representatives in the twin Telugu states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana — over the last decade were arrested by the Tirupati police in Andhra Pradesh's Chittoor district following a similar unsuccessful bid on Tirupati MP M Gurumoorthy.
An anonymous caller posing himself as a CMO staffer called up Gurumoorthy on January 14 claiming that the Centre sanctioned Rs 5 crore to the Tirupati Lok Sabha constituency and asked him to transfer Rs 25 lakh as challan charges.