TIRUPATI: Former Andhra Pradesh chief minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu drew the attention of state chief secretary KS Jawahar Reddy and asked the latter to take measures to curb illegal granite quarrying and transportation from Kuppam assembly constituency in Chittoor district to the neighbouring state of Tamil Nadu.
"It has been reported that granite smuggling mafia from Kuppam assembly constituency in Andhra Pradesh, has been illegally quarrying and smuggling granite blocks to Tamil Nadu viz Krishnagiri and Vellore districts", the Kuppam legislator alleged in his letter addressed to the CS.
