32 woodcutters arrested in Chittoor

In a joint operation, the Renigunta police and the sleuths of the Redsanders Anti-Smuggling Taskforce (RSASTF) have nabbed 32 persons, suspecting them to be woodcutters on a mission to fell precious red sanders trees in Seshachalam forest.

The arrested were all native of Jamunamarathur and Polur taluks of Tiruvannamalai district of Tamil Nadu, considered to be the epicentre of redsanders business that dispatches woodcutters to Seshachalam for felling trees.