Hyderabad: In a typical plot taken directly from a Tollywood movie, the AP police managed to arrest notorious red sanders smuggler Kollam Gangi Reddy following a party thrown by him for his fellow smugglers in Mauritius.
According to sources in the police department, Gangi Reddy threw a dinner party in the evening in abroad for all the smugglers. After this event, the police tracked him and arrested him in February in Mauritius.
One of the smugglers who attended the party was a mole of the cops. He had tipped off the police about his movements and helped in the arrest of this notorious smuggler.
A native of Pullampet in Kadapa, Gangi Reddy is involved in 27 criminal cases in AP. He fled India in May 2014 and was detained at the Mauritius airport by the Mauritius police with the help of Interpol.
Similarly, another smuggler, Nagarajan, was trapped by the police using a woman as he spent time in star hotels.
“He used to stay in star hotel rooms in Chennai and led a luxurious life. But the police trapped him with the help of the woman, with whom he was spending his time,” said the official.
