Kadapa police step up vigil on redsanders smuggling

More than 1,027 logs seized since the pandemic broke out

The police department has roped in services of special police parties and installed twelve check posts in vantage routes to check redsanders smuggling in Seshachalam forests, where the activity has been on the rise since the pandemic broke out. In the last few months, the redsanders smuggling kingpins, operating from beyond the State’s borders, have been trying to expand their footprint in the forest by making good use of the government’s continued focus on enforcing lockdown. Going by statistics, the police department has slapped P.D. Act on eleven kingpins and pushed behind the bars more than 70 smugglers having nexus with international and national level operatives since COVID broke out. More than 80 cases have been booked, 526 persons arrested and 1,027 logs weighing 25.5 tonnes and 64 vehicles used to smuggle them seized in the said period.