Red sanders worth ₹40 lakh seized
The Hindu
Smuggling operative from Tamil Nadu nabbed
A combing party of the Andhra Pradesh State Red Sanders Anti-Smuggling Task Force (APSRSASTF) on Friday seized 18 logs worth over ₹40 lakh and nabbed a smuggling operative from Tamil Nadu, in the forests of Talakona in the Seshachalam Hills, 80 km from here.
According to the task force officials, the combing party led by Deputy SP D. Murali Dhar was on patrol at Kokkirayi Kanuma in the Nerabailu forest in the early hours of Friday and they found smuggling operatives carrying the red sanders logs. Seeing the task force team, the operatives abandoned the logs and fled. The team nabbed one of the operatives identified as Sankar Govindan (36) from Thongamalai in Vellore district of Tamil Nadu.

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