Cyberabad SOT busts seed racket, nab four

Hyderabad: As a proactive approach towards curbing banned cotton seed, the sleuths of Special Operations Teams of Medchal and Rajendranagar along with the officials of Agricultural Department, Genome Valley PS and Shankarpally PS conducted joint operations and nabbed four accused, who have been illegally transporting and selling banned cotton seed in order to sell the same to gullible farmers.

The sleuths seized 1.440 tons of banned (BG-III/HT) cotton seed worth Rs 36 lakh, which are banned by the State government of Telangana. Suresh Yadav, son of Pindi Ilaiah of Mandamarri of Mancherial district, receiver is absconding.

An unknown person (known to Suresh Yadav), resident of Kushtagi, Koppal district, Karnataka, a banned seed supplier is absconding. Pulikonda Yashwanth Kumar, son of Trilokeshwar Rao, driver of Mancherial district. They were doing smuggling of prohibited seed since a few years, were selling the same to innocent farmers.

In another case, SOT sleuths of Rajendranagar and Shankarpally police caught Borra Shiva Shankar Rao, son of Potha Raju, farmar of Velmula, Ramachandrapuram native of Pusuluru, Pedanandipadu, Guntur, AP, Ashireddygari Srinivas Reddy, son of late.Nagireddy of Yelwerthy village, Shankarpally, Madamanchi Uday Kiran alias Kiran, son of Hari Babu, farmar of Fatehpur, Shankarpally Manda, Ranga Reddy District native of Pedanandipadu, Gorijavoluguntapatnam, Guntur, AP, Hari Babu of ShankarPally and Srinivas Rao of Kurnool, supplier is absconding.

They have been doing smuggling of prohibited seeds for a few years and selling the same to innocent farmers in black market for high rates. The arrests were made under the supervision of D. Srinivas, DCP, SOT Cyberabad, ADCP Shoban Kumar, ADCP Srinivas Reddy, Inspector SOT Medchal, R. Shyamsunder Reddy, Inspector, SOT Rajendranagar, P. Ramana Reddy, ACP Pet Basheerabad, ACP Narsinghi, Inspector Genome valley, Inspector Shankarpalli, and MAO Shamirpet, MAO Shankarpalli jointly nabbed the accused.