Kondurgu police of Cyberabad arrested two men for illegally transporting diesel from Karnataka and supplying it in Hyderabad to different companies in Amangal. Police said they bought it from a supplier in Adki, Karnataka.
The accused, Matta Anand Kumar, 37, hatched a plan with Jetawat Shekar Naik, 32, an oil tanker driver, to sell the smuggled fuel to locals at higher price. They contacted Srinivas, owner of Sri Krishna Filling Station in Adki village, to provide them diesel in bulk, said Shadnagar ACP, N. Ch. Ranga Swamy.
“The duo bought the fuel for ₹88 a litre and were selling it to their close contacts at ₹95 per litre, against the government rates of ₹97.82 per litre in Hyderabad. They were smuggling around 15,000 to 20,000 litres of diesel per trip from Adki, which is around 83 km from Kondurgu in Mahabubabad district,” said the official.
