The Chittoor police on Tuesday nabbed seven members of an inter-State gang involved in red sanders logs smuggling operations and recovered logs weighing 2.7 tonnes from them on the outskirts of the Chittoor-Bengaluru national highway.
Superintendent of Police Y. Rishant Reddy and Deputy SP (Law and Order) N. Sudhakar Reddy produced the accused, all from Tamil Nadu, and the seized logs, worth ₹3 crore in the international market, and three vehicles at a press conference here. Three others, who belong to Chittoor district, are absconding, and a special party is formed to track them down, the SP said.
The SP said that acting on reliable information about the movement of smuggling operatives towards Bengaluru, a special party led by Deputy SP Sudhakar Reddy swung into action and intercepted a suspiciously-moving car on the NH.
