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The Hindu
31-07-2025
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- The Hindu
Police intensify patrolling along Krishna river bund amid rising flood level
The police step up vigilance in the vulnerable places and along Krishna river bund due to rising flood levels on Thursday (July 31, 2025). An alert has been sounded in the up- and downstream areas of the river. The State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) and the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) have been positioned in low-lying areas. Also read: Andhra Pradesh floods updates on July 31, 2025 The NTR Commissionerate and the Krishna district police, in coordination with the Irrigation and Revenue Department officials, were taking steps on flood preparedness, said the police. Krishna district Superintendent of Police R. Gangadhar Rao has said the Avanigadda police were put on alert as the discharge from Prakasam barrage was about 2.50 lakh cusecs. 'Instructions have been given to the police to intensify patrolling in the flood-affected villages in Avanigadda, Challapalli, Mopidevi and Nagayalanka mandals,' Mr. Gangadhar Rao said. NTR Commissionerate Deputy Commissioner of Police K.M. Maheswara Raju has said the police were monitoring the situation with the Telangana officials on discharge of flood from the upstream projects. 'The Nandigama, Jaggaiahpeta and Ibrahimpatnam police were asked to coordinate with the Mandal Revenue Officers (MROs) in the upstream of Krishna river and take precautionary measures,' Mr. Maheswara Raju told The Hindu on Thursday (July 31, 2025). NDRF 10th Battalion Commandant V.V.N. Prasanna Kumar said that teams would be deployed on the bathing ghats and at the Prakasam barrage to prevent any untoward incidents. Avanigadda Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) T. Vidya Sree said that an alert has been sounded in the low-lying habitations as the flood level is rising in Krishna river. Officials were making tom-tom in the habitations, cautioning the people not to enter into the river and take cattle into island villages for grazing. Police asked the villagers not to cross the river and the overflowing canals on country-made boats and for fishing as the inflows and discharge from the upstream were increasing.
The Hindu
08-07-2025
- The Hindu
‘Operation Save Campus Zone' conducted near schools, colleges in Eluru and NTR districts
Police teams, led by Superintendent of Police (SP) K. Prathap Siva Kishore, conducted the 'Operation Save Campus Zone', in Eluru district, on Tuesday. Multiple teams conducted searches near schools and colleges to prevent the sale of cigarettes and ganja in all mandals in Nuzvid, Polavaram, Eluru and Jangareddygudem in the district. 'We conducted raids on shops located near educational institutions and seized cigarettes. Cigarettes and prohibited material should not be sold within 100 metres from the institution,' the SP said. Meanwhile, in the NTR Commissionerate, police teams led by Police Commissioner S.V. Raja Sekhara Babu conducted raids in the shops to check sale of gutkha, cigarettes and other sedatives. Deputy Commissioners of Police K.M. Maheshwara Raju and K.G.V. Saritha and ACPs searched the shops at various locations in Vijayawada and the neighbouring places, where schools and colleges were located. Stern action would be taken against those who sell cigarettes and other prohibited material to students, the Police Commissioner warned.
The Hindu
11-05-2025
- The Hindu
Unqualified persons evaluated APPSC Group-I Mains answer sheets, allege police
The NTR Commissionerate police investigating the alleged job scam in the Andhra Pradesh Public Service Commission (APPSC) have said that unqualified persons evaluated the answer sheets of the Group-I Mains examinations. Following the directions of the Andhra Pradesh High Court to set aside the digital evaluation process and take up manual evaluation, then APPSC Secretary and IPS officer P. Sitarama Anjaneyulu had allegedly entrusted the task to Camsign Media Private Limited, a private agency, in December 2021. The firm's director, P. Madhusudhana Rao, had engaged about 66 persons, many of whom were not qualified, for the purpose, the police allege. 'Those who evaluated the answer sheets included private school teachers, lecturers, data entry operators and clerks. They had also signed on the answer sheets as examiners and scrutinisers,' an investigation officer alleged. The evaluation process had been carried out at the Haailand Resorts in Guntur district for three months, violating the APPSC rules, alleged Assistant Commissioner of Police A.B.G. Tilak, who is investigating the case. Mr. Anjaneyulu had allegedly went ahead with the process despite several officers making it clear to him that evaluation of the answer sheets at a private place by private persons was against rules, and that it should be entrusted to professors and assistant professors working in the government-run colleges / universities. No surveillance cameras had been arranged at the evaluation camp, and the government paid ₹1.14 crore to the private agency for conducting the manual evaluation, the ACP said. Following a complaint on the filling of 169 posts in the Group-I services, the Suryaraopet police under the NTR Commissionerate registered a case under IPC Sections 409 (Criminal Breach of Trust), 477-A (Falsification of Accounts), 120-B (Criminal Conspiracy) and 420 (Cheating). The police had so far questioned 21 witnesses in the case and arrested Mr. Sitarama Anjaneyulu and Mr. Madhusudhana Rao.
The Hindu
10-05-2025
- The Hindu
Police invoke PIT NDPS Act against ganja peddler
The NTR Commissionerate police invoked Prevention of Illicit Trafficking in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (PIT NDPS) Act, 1988, against ganja peddler and smuggler Tummala Manoj. A resident of Satyanarayanapuram area in Vijayawada, Manoj had been smuggling ganja since 2011, and had been arrested many times, said the police in a release. The accused was arrested and sent to Rajamahendravaram Central Prison on Saturday, said NTR district In-charge Police Commissioner Sarvashreshta Tripathi.
