Fake land deal racket busted

The Bhongir Special Operations Team (SOT) apprehended seven persons allegedly involved in making fake documents pertaining to vacant plots of land in and around Tuprapet village. They seized from their possession fraudulent sale deeds of seven plots and ₹ 7 lakh, mobile phones and two four-wheelers. The accused are Parindham Sekhar, Anugu Madhavreddy, Y Ramalingeswara … Read more

Police, jail staff help accused run fake certificate racket from prison

The kingpin of the ‘fake certificates racket’, who is lodged in the Guntakal Sub-Jail following his arrest on February 1, continued his operations and maintained contact with his wide network, with the help of two policemen. Anantapur police during their investigation and interrogation of Glenn Bricks found his links to yet another gang and arrested … Read more

Jewellery theft probe unearths bigger gold racket in Anantapur

Anantapur district police personnel cracked the gold theft case of Tadipatri town by arresting eight persons involved in it and recovered 2.5 kg of gold jewellery, six two-wheelers and nine cellular phones on Thursday. The value of the recovered material was more than ₹1 crore, Superintendent of Police B. Satya Yesu Babu told reporters here. … Read more

Khammam becoming a hub of spurious seed racket?

Khammam division, the major chilli-growing belt of Telangana, seems to be fast emerging a hub of well-entrenched inter-state spurious seed racket if the seizure of a huge quantity of spurious chilli seed from an unlicensed seed manufacturing unit at Gudimalla village in Khammam rural mandal by the task force police on Wednesday is any indication. … Read more