Telangana: Five nabbed for illegally ferrying sand

Hyderabad: The Special Operations Team of Shamshabad raided sand transporters and nabbed five persons. Tractors loaded with sand were recovered from them on Sunday. The accused were identified as Sami Kistaiah, Misani Ravi, Sodipet Ravi, Nagani Ramesh and Mani Satyam. “The arrested persons were unemployed in summer. They planned to smuggle sand from Shabad area. We recovered the tractors carrying the illegally transported sand and arrested them,” said sub inspector N. Sridhar Reddy. A case was booked under Section 379 (theft) of MMDR (Minerals and Mines Development and Regulations Act and the PDPP Act (Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act) and the culprits were remanded.