Four police officers of the Tirupati Urban district, all discharging duty from the Tiruchanur police station, have been suspended on charges of corruption on Wednesday.
Superintendent of Police P. Parameswara Reddy announced the suspension of Circle Inspector M. Subrahmanyam, Sub-Inspectors Veeresh, M. Ramakrishna and B. Ramakrishna Reddy, for reportedly forcibly getting a private godown vacated and for attempting to encash a cigarette consignment worth ₹20 lakh belonging to ITC. This, the four had reportedly done in collusion with a group of private individuals.
Following a complaint from the ITC, the SP ordered a departmental enquiry which revealed that the Chennai-based Muthu Kumar, a distributor for ITC and other FMCG products, had taken a two-storied building in the city’s Srinivasapuram locality on lease from D.G. Nishanth, a resident of Hyderabad.
