An armed reserve constable of the Andhra Pradesh State Anti-Red Sanders Task Force (APSRSTF), Ganesh (30), was killed when a car smuggling red sanders logs fatally knocked him down near Chinnepalle on the KV Palle-Sundupalle forest road, 30 km from Piler, in Annamayya district in the early hours of Tuesday.
According to information, a batch of ten personnel of the Task Force from Tirupati reached the forest road on Monday midnight and was patrolling the stretch, based on a tip-off about the movement of red sanders smuggling operatives.
Around 3.00 am, the Task Force team tried to stop a speeding car, after parking their patrol vehicle on the left side. However, the car carrying the contraband along with three inmates, swerved to the right in a bid to escape. In this process, the car knocked down Ganesh, who later died due to critical injuries while on the way to the Government Hospital at Piler.
