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Gang involved in theft of power conductors held

Red-handed: Seven-member gang along with booty

ANANTAPUR: Farmers in several villages of surrounding mandals of the district headquarters heaved a sigh of relief with the arrest of a seven-member gang, allegedly involved in the theft of electrical conductors, by the police here on Friday.

The act for gain by the gang has been causing serious hardships to the farmers as they would be denied power supply to their agriculture pump sets once the cable on the power transmission lines is missing . Moreover they were suffering financially too due to withering of crops on account of lack of power supply, as the Transco would not restore such lines immediately.

Acting on specific information that the gang was coming to the town to dispose the aluminium power conductor melted into blocks, a team of the Anantapur sub-division police nabbed the gang along with the aluminium block being brought into the town in an auto on the outskirts. They arrested the gang and seized 2,579 kgs of aluminium converted into 672 blocks and 126 pieces of power conductor, all worth about Rs. 4 lakhs. Giving the details to newspersons Anantapur DSP G.S. Karunakar stated that the arrested persons were C. Raghavendra, gang leader, Ramanji, S. Khaja Mohiddin, C. Srinivasulu, K. Gangadhar, S. Mahabub Basha and C. Pedda Srinivasulu. Raghavendra and Pedda Srinivasulu were working as contract workers in Anantapur Municipal Corporation. All of them belonged to Anantapur town. The gang had resorted to theft of power conductor for the last five months from the fields in 18 villages of Anantapur rural, Garladinne, Kuderu, Atmakuru and Singanamala mandals.

In all, the gang was allegedly involved in 22 incidents of power conductor theft, the DSP said.

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