Red sanders smuggler Gangi Reddy brought to AP from Mauritius

A team led by the Director-General of CID C. Dwaraka Tirumala Rao brought him from Mauritius to Hyderabad on Sunday.

"Based on evidence, we will take stern action against any political leader or government official if it is found that they helped Gangi Reddy in red sanders smuggling", said AP Director General of Police (DGP) JV Ramudu at a press conference here Sunday. Later, the police filed a petition in the Court and got the bail cancelled, but it was too late.

The Interpol has issued a Red Corner notice on Gangi Reddy and alerted all the countries about the smuggler.

Gangi Reddy was arrested by Interpol sleuths after he was detained in Mauritius airport in February this year, thwarting his attempt to fly to Sri Lanka, as the passport authorities impounded his passport on charge of furnishing a fictitious birth date document.

Meanwhile, Reddy hired advocates from India to stall the efforts of AP police in securing his deportation from Mauritius.

In March, his passport was additionally revoked as he had obtained it on a pretend id.

Kurnool police officials arrested him on April 4 previous year, and he was remanded to judicial custody by the court at Dhone.

The similar month, a courtroom at Produttur issued a conviction warrant of arrest towards Reddy to bear an unspent interval of sentence of 18 months and 27 days in a case of homicide, during which he was convicted.

Gangi Reddy a native of Kadapa district have been doing criminal offences since 1987.

Along with 58 others, he resorted to rioting with bombs and weapons against the villagers of Rangampalli and Vaddepalli located in Pullampet police station limits. On June 7, 1992, political rivalry led to the murder of former district cooperative bank chairman Ambati Murali Mohan Reddy and Gangi Reddy was the main accused in the case.

"We will interrogate him to know about his global and local contacts related to red sanders smuggling".

"Reddy is the mastermind in organising illicit felling, stocking and transportation of precious Red Sanders wood from forests in Tirupati and Rayalaseema region".

He was also booked as a conspirator in a Maoist attack on Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu in 2003, but was acquitted for lack of evidence.