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Andhra Pradesh lorry driver seeks probe into lorry hijack

The gang fled with the lorry containing rubber goods
Coimbatore: A lorry driver from Andhra Pradesh has petitioned the Coimbatore district superintendent of police alleging that a lorry he had been driving was hijacked by a gang which had then transferred Rs 19 lakh worth of goods on to another lorry and fled from the area.
The petitioner, C. Reddy Ramaiah, from Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh, in a petition to superintendent of police M. Sudhakar, said on October 9, he was transporting Rs 19 lakh worth of natural rubber from Kerala to Hyderabad. The lorry belongs to S. Sudhakar Reddy of Andhra Pradesh.
After the record verifications at Walayar check-post, Reddy Ramaiah drove on. He had just crossed K.G. Chavadi when four men, dressed like policemen, stopped his vehicle and asked for a lift to Sulur.
Ramaiah refused to do so, but the four men threatened him and forced him to allow them inside his vehicle. When Ramaiah had neared Sulur, the four men asked him to stop the vehicle along the L&T bypass.
After Ramaiah stopped the lorry, the gang gagged him and dumped him under the seat. Ramaiah fell unconscious as the gang drove the lorry. After about five hours, Ramaiah was dumped on the roadside. The gang fled with the lorry containing the rubber goods.
Ramaiah later came to know that he had been left at Gundlupet, in Chamrajnagar district, Karnataka. Later, he found that his lorry had been left by the side of the road a few km away and that the rubber products were missing, he said in the petition. The petition was submitted to Mr Sudhakar who directed the Sulur police to investigate.
( Source : dc correspondent )
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