Tiger M2B3 migrated from Prakasham to Mannanur, whiskers and claws stolen

U Sudhakar Reddy
The young male tiger that was killed in NS tiger reserve was
identified as ‘M2B3’ whose picture was taken by camera trap in May 2013 at
Gajulavaripalli in Prakasham district and it migrated to Mannanur area in Mahabubnagar
district by travelling almost 50 km. The tiger was captured in the camera traps on May 15
and May 22 in 2013 thrice in Guttalacheney area, GV Palli Range and Markapur.
M2B3 is the technical name given to the tiger. Chief Wild Life Warden Mr. A V Joseph who
visited the scene of the offence in Mannanur in Mahabubnagar district said the tiger
migrated to Mannanur area and was establishing his territory in the new region.
“The tiger crossed river Krishna before rainy season. The tiger kill spot is in the
fringe of Mannanur. We appeal to locals not to poison carcass of cattle and we will give
compensation to cattle kills. The punishment will be serious if they resort to
poisoning,” said A V Joseph.

Based on the stripes the tiger has been identified. Investigations found that the accused
also took whiskers apart from claws. Whiskers are also valuable and sold at 500 dollars
on each in China market.
Dr. P Srinivas Reddy of Nehru Zoo and Dr Madhusudhan Reddy who conducted autopsy said
,”The death of tiger may have taken place on 19 or 20th and it may have taken four to
five days. It appeared while dying it fell right side and struggled. The heart was empty
without blood it confirms the shock death. There is no bullet or any blunt object wound.
Hind limbs are missing. On face of it there is no noose marks. But hind limbs is
connecting area. The stomach is also empty. It may have omitted with irrigation. There is
no hitting on head as skull in intact. The canines are removed and thrown on floor.  The
cattle kill and water body are within 1.5 km range of the incident. In organo phosphorus
poisoning the animal drinks much of water. The final cause of death can be confirmed only
after the lab results,”
The cattle may have been killed ten days ago.

Tiger killing case slapped against whistle blower along with other suspects

TIGER DIES OF SUDDEN SHOCK

U Sudhakar Reddy

Tiger killing in Nagarjunasagar Srisailam Tiger Reserve near
Mannanur in Nallamalais took a new turn on Friday. Mahabubnagar police booked a case
under criminal trespass, mischief by killing animal, hunting in a sanctuary against
Eenadu news contributor P Vedantam, a teacher, an electricity department employee and a
driver and others alleging that they entered into forest without permission of the
department and the whole case is revolving around them. Interestingly the case was booked
against the news contributor who bought the tiger killing to light. The case was based on
the complaint filed by Mannanur Forest Range Officer Mr B Lakshman. Forest department
also booked a preliminary offence report(POR) under several sections of wild life
protection act.
The post mortem examination report found that the tiger died of ‘injury and sudden
shock’. Foresters said this could happen due to poisoning and fall after it.
“Investigations so far point that the tiger has killed a cattle of a villager two
kilometers from Mannanur and angered by this the cattle rearer poisoned the Caracas of
cattle which was later eaten by the tiger. The big cat comes back to kill and eats it for
few days. It may have died after eating the poisoned carcass. Following the death same
cattle rearer or others who spotted it chopped of its leg and took away claws. The role
of the reporter so far appears to be trespassing and not informing the cops or foresters.
But we are investigating the allegations of forest department too,” said an investigator.
According to Amrabad Sub inspector of police Mr. G Ravinder the case with crime number 
5/2015 has been booked under section 447 and 429 of IPC and section 51 of Wild Life 
Protection act against P Vedantam, a private teacher R Lakshman, electricity department 
employee Mr. B Niranjan, former driver of forest department Mr. Hathi Ram and others.
Nagarjunasagar Srisailam Tiger Reserve Filed director Mr. Rahul Pandey said . “This is 
not a professional poacher’s work as they didn’t take valuable skin, teeth and jaws.  It 
is an act of locals. The contributor who went into the forest first has been refusing to 
give details how he came to know about the incident. He didn’t bother to inform either 
police or forest department,”. One of the guard on duty at Mannanur told forest sleuths 
that he saw the news contributor and teacher entered into the forest on a bike around 
5.30 pm on Wednesday. “The photograph was taken daylight it shows that the contributor 
had entered into forest prior to that during day time also. We didn’t know about the 
incident till we saw the picture in the newspaper,” says field director Rahul Pandey. “We 
have found any noose or bullet injuries on the tiger.
Mr. P Vedantam denied any wrong and said an unidentified cattle rearer handed him over a 
memory card with the pictures and he had sent to his office. “I didn’t enter the forest. 
I run a medical shop at Mannanur and work part time for the newspaper. The cattle rearer 
handed over it and vanished. He may have taken the photo on mobile phone,”
The POR booked by forest department is under section 9(prohibition of hunting), section 
27(restriction of entry into sanctuary), 29 (destruction in the sanctuary without a 
permit), section 31(prohibition of entry into sanctuary without weapon) and section 
39(prohibiting making trophies from wild animals) under Wild Life Protection Act.
The viscera of the tiger and cattle was sent to APFSL for examination to find out whether 
the tiger and cattle was poisoned. The samples were also sent to Veterinary Biological 
Research Institute for examining any diseases, for DNA sampling to Lacones of CCMB. “It 
will take 15 to 30 days for getting the reports from the agencies,” said Pandey.

Maoist Usendi claims no role in military operations

U Sudhakar Reddy
While National Investigation Agency is seeking access to Maoist Gudsa 
Usendi  to unravel his role in massacres it has been investigating the surrendered Maoist 
leader claimed that he has no role in military operations and he is only on ideological 
work in the party.

Sources in State police questioning Gudsa Usendi said that he had clarified that he never 
took part in military operations and mass killings. “He claimed that he is only involved 
in press and writing work mostly and also writing the down the policies,” said a senior 
police official.
State police has allowed NIA and other national agencies to talk to Usendi. However State 
police clearly informed these agencies not to execute any warrants against him as the 
surrender policy gives him ‘freedom’ from all cases.
“No warrants will be executed against him. Whenever a Maoist is surrendered it is the 
policy to ensure that he is not arrested. This is to encourage surrenders. Instead reward 
amount on their head will be given to him,” said a state police official.
However State police are  worried over the over enthusiasm of central agencies as it 
would hamper the surrender police and more naxals will not come out to surrender if they 
are arrested again on warrant.
NIA will be questioning Usendi regarding several massacres that took place in 
Chattisgarh. Even State police units of several naxal infested states are interested to 
question him.

Women Maoist is Usendi's living partner

Maoist Gudsa Usendi's surrender that shook the CPI Maoist party took
a new turn on Monday with cops and media receiving message from CPI Maoists that the
woman who surrendered along with him is not his wife.
Dreaded Maoist and Dandkaranya Special Zonal Committee secretary Ramanna in an audio
message claimed that Usendi has actually fled the party with another woman cadre.
“Usendi’s wife Raji is still with the party but he has fled with another woman cadre and
claiming her as his wife,” Ramanna alleged. Usendi has earlier claimed that he took the
permission of the party.
A senior police official said ,”The woman who surrendered is Jaini alias Marakam Santoshi
and Usendi told us that he has been living with her for the past one year. Though they
are not traditionally married they are living together. Usendi told us due to differences
he was separated from Raji his wife,”
“We have analysed the audio message of Ramanna. It says that people will come and go out
of party but the party continues to grow. They also raised the woman issue. CPI Maoist
party didn’t react on any surrender in recent times. They have reacted on Usendi’s
surrender this itself shows that it is a big shock to them and they are worried. His
surrender is definitely a loss to the party,”
Usendi is believed to be privy to vital information about the Maoist party in
Chhattisgarh and other parts of the country. Usendi, 53, is from Kadavendi village in
Devaruppala mandal in Warangal district. There was a price of Rs 20 lakh on his head.
DGP Prasada Rao announced that he surrendered due to rift between the leadership and also
due to ill health. Police said Jaini the woman Usendi claimed as his wife is suffering

serious illness and is undergoing treatment.

Enforcement Directorate brings 45 lakh copies of Satyam complaint in four trucks to court

U Sudhakar Reddy

Enforcement Directorate has filed 45 lakh photo copies of complaint 

against B Ramalinga Raju and 212 others brought in four trucks to Special Court for 

Satyam case in Nampally on Saturday. It took two months for ED to make photo copies of 

the complaint.

The voluminous complaint was filed to give photocopies of it to the 213 accused including 

156 companies and 47 individuals who are allegedly involved in money laundering.

The complaint was initially filed by ED in 21st ACMM court cum special court for Satyam 

case in October 2013 after it was designated as special court under Prevention of Money 

Laundering Act. Each complaint copy has 60 volumes with thousands of pages.

A sources in ED said ,”CBI has earlier filed chargesheet and trial is on against accused 

in Satyam case. The crime proceed derived were utilized to purchase the properties in the 

name of benami companies. Around Rs 822 crore was used to pay the salaries and to run day 

to day affairs of Satyam and remaining amount was used to purchase 354 properties 

including 4000 acres of land in the name of benami companies and directors. We have 

attached them under PMLA.,”

The accused Ramalinga Raju and brother Rama Raju have falsified the balance sheets of the 

company and had shown more profits to inflate shares. They duo who were holding 5 crore 

shares pledged most of them and took loans. Using these loan amount they purchased 

properties.

ED investigations have confirmed the link between the share pledge amounts to the 

purchase of properties.  “The case under PMLA will now be tried in the same court along 

with the CBI case,” said an official.

Dubai module of Red sanders smugglers pose threat

U Sudhakar Reddy
Dubai module of red Sanders smugglers has evolved as key organised
racket running the illegal trade across the borders posting big challenge to enforcement
agencies. Two international smugglers Shahul Hameed and Sheikh of are wanted by
Directorate of Revenue Intelligence too apart from the AP police in 17 cases. Police said
that Shahul Hameed a citizen of Singapore was initially at Chennai and later he has fled
to Dubai and operating the network. Red Sanders consignments  initially sent to Dubai and
from there it reaches Hongkong, China and other international hubs. Police and DRI
identified that the payments for red sanders are sent through hawala channels.
Sources in DRI said that shipping consignments are sent to Dubai from Chennai, Kochi and
Mumbai in the guise of goods export. They are exported in the name of plywood, chappals
and other material. In 2011 October DRI seized 13.5 tonnes of Red Sanders two key persons
Shahul Hameed and Shafeeq of Dubai module were identified.
On Saturday Tirupati police revealed that Shahul Hameed is the key man behind smuggling
racket in the AP as per the confession of Balraj the arrested the red sanders smuggler.
Most of the high end operatives are from Chennai and Kerala. The operative have links to
Singapore, Malaysia, Bangkok and Hongkong too. Another key accused Shafeeq from Thalseery
who is assisting the racket to smuggled out red sanders to China and Hong kong via Dubai
was initially part of  A T Maideen gang in Hong Kong. After A T Maideen was detained in
2012 it was Shahul Hameed who is leading the racket.
It was also revealed that one Sanath Kumar associate of Shahul Hameed arranges for
clearance of Red sander wood on behalf of export concerns. In 2004 Shahul Hameed was once
detained at Chennai and later he jumped out on bail.
On one line e commerce websites too Red Sanders is traded. One of the advertisements says
‘Buy Indian Red sandal wood from Dubai’ and specifies that the wood should come from
Indian forest. Most of the Chinese companies are posting the online ads with request to
buy the priced wood. In one of the e commerce sites China based company says it requires
100 tonnes of red sanders at the rate of 19,000 US dollars per ton. Several Bangalore
based operatives are also giving online advertisements regarding the sale of Red Sanders.
The extract of red sander Pteorsibilin is used to prepare an alternative for Viagra said
AP Biodiversity Board Chairman Dr R Hampaiah.

AP still hub of sex trafficking, 778 traffickers arrested and 558 minors rescued

U Sudhakar Reddy
State is still hub of sex trafficking. According to Director General 
of Police Mr. B Prasada Rao in 2013 state police arrested 778 traffickers and rescued 558 
victims including minors. Human trafficking racket has links to Middle East countries and 
Mumbai and other places within the country police found.

DGP Mr Prasada Rao said,”We have booked 386 cases of trafficking of women and apart from 
traffickers we also arrested 363 customers.  At least 11 minors who are forced into sex 
racket were rescued. CID anti trafficking units are working on to curb the menace,”
Local sex racketeers turned hitech and were contacting their clients through  mobile 
applications, whatsapp and social networking sites like Facebook. In November 2013 in a 
sex racket busted at Punjagutta the girls are flown in to the city from Delhi, Pune and 
Mumbai on air. The organizer identified as Peter alias Chetan from Delhi used to gain 
confidence of customers and send the pictures of girls on facebook and through internet.
Last year witnessed several high profile sex racket cases. In one instance in October 
City police busted a high profile sex racket and arrested an industrialist SK Goenka the 
MD of Jay Raj Ispat Limited and resident of Banjara Hills and rescued an upcoming TV 
serial actress at Madhapur in October.
CID officials said apart from local gangs there are cross border networking trafficking 
women to the city from Bangladesh via Kolkata. From Kolkata they are taken to Biwandi in 
Mumbai, Pune and Hyderabad by train. Several Bangladeshi girls were rescued in the city.
Trafficking of young women from the state to Gulf countries including Dubai, Kuwait and 
Oman and forcing them into the sex trade hasn’t stopped according to anti trafficking 
police. The women were trapped in the racket after being promised jobs as maid servants 
and baby-sitters in Gulf countries.

ISRO's space commerce booming, to get Rs 120 crore by launching SPOT 7

U Sudhakar Reddy
Indian Space Research Organization’s Space commerce has a good
progress with international customers lining up for launch of their satellites including
SPOT-7 French satellite. So far, Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) has launched 35
satellites for international customers and has established ISRO as a major player in the
satellite launching business. Commercial launch contracts have also been signed for
launching satellites from Canada, Germany and Indonesia.

According to ISRO discussions are on with many prospective customers for satellite
launches. ISRO’s commercial body Antrix Corporation Limited with a turnover of Rs 1200
crore per annum is dealing with space commerce that include Rs 800 core from transponder
leasing to TV channels and VSAT networks and Rs 200 crore from the sale of remote sensing
pictures and remaining amount from the satellite launches using PSLV. Sources in Antrix
Corporation said with the SPOT-7 Image satellite of France to be launched soon will fetch
an amount of around Rs 120 crore at one go.
Apart from the French SPOT Image an 800 kg satellite from Germany and three satellites
from UK each weighing 200 kg are in line up. ISRO has launched three big satellites and
all other 35 are small satellites of 100 kgs to 200kgs on commercial basis.
Satish Dawan Space Centre at Sriharikota director Mr. M Y S Prasad said ,”In the next
three to four months we are going launch SPOT image a French remote sensing satellite
from Sriharikota. Astrium a European company has struck a contract with Antrix
Corporation Limited for delivering the satellite into the orbit. Apart from this a few
more are in pipeline. Some of them are in discussion stage,”
ISRO in 2012 September launched French Satellite Spot-7 and Japanese satellite PROTIERS.
SPOT-6 with a lift mass of 712 kgs is the heaviest satellite ever launched by PSLV. On
February 25, 2013, PSLV’s 23rd flight of PSLV, successfully launched six foreign
satellites into orbit along with the Indo-French satellite SARAL.
 “Most of the small satellites are sent based on additional capabilities when we launched
our own big satellites with PSLV. Communication satellite is more profitable. PSVL has a
capability to launch 1100 kgs satellite. For remote sensing satellites it can launch up
to 1600 kgs,” said Mr. Prasad.
Across the world Arianespace of France gets 50 per cent of space commerce contracts. It
has Ariane 5, Soyuz and Vega launch vehicles. US launch vehicles Atlas and Delta and
Chinese Flag march 3, 4 and 5 are the top launch vehicles ahead of PSLV.

Maoist think tank Gudsa Usendi surrenders to police, Gudsa knew too many things about Maoist networks

In a big blow to Maoist movement in Dandakaranya, Gudsa Usendi alias 

Gummadivalli Venkata Krishna Prasad the spokesperson of Chattisgharh State Maoist party surrendered to the Special Intelligence Branch. He was named as one of the prime accused in the major killings in Chattisgarh.  Gudsa Usendi known to be intellectually strong was a state committee member rank leader who knows too many things about Maoist party in Chattisgarh and in other parts of the country.Police are hopeful that he is a mine of information on Maoist network which would lead to further anti extremist operations.  GVK Prasad hails from Kadavendi village in  Devaruppala mandal in Warangal district and he carries a reward of Rs 20 lakh on his head. Gudsa knows gondi and other tribal languages and known for his good relations with the common public in Dandakaranya as well as with the top leaders of other States.  Gudsa Usendi claimed that he differed with the Maoist leadership on policy matters and his health condition also deteriorated.Sources said his wife Raji also surrendered to SIB. He was involved in massacre of Congress leader V  C Shukla, Mahendra Karma in Jiram Ghati and others and also killing of 76 CRPF jawans in Tarmetala.An anti naxal cop said ,”He is the man who issued press release, audio statements after the killings and also during the bandhs and also on policy issues. GVK Prasad was known for his drafting skills including in English, Hindi and Telugu and writes analysis reports on CPI Maoist party’s policies and strategies. Prior to him it was Ramachandra Reddy who was operating with the alias name Gudsa Usendi and two years ago GVK Prasad has been identified as spokesperson,”He had sharply criticized the mass massacre in which innocent people were killed which resulted in rift between top Maoist leadership in Dandakaranya and him.GVK Prasad son of Somaiah  is known by several alias names apart from Gudsa Usendi like Mallu dora alias Malu alias Irmal alias Sukdev. He is an official spokesperson of Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee and in charge of press education, propaganda wing of DKSZC and working in Chattisgarh. He has a reward on his head both in AP and in Chattisgarh.

Red sanders smugglers amass wealth, earn crores, buy flats, agriculture lands and luxury cars

U Sudhakar Reddy

 Red sanders smugglers can retain their wealth as the forest 

department and police are not confiscating their properties they earned from crime. Smugglers just walk out of jail on bail and enjoy the properties as they are booked under non bailable sections and no chargesheets are filed in time. Most of the top smugglers own palatial buildings, luxurious cars and are growing rich say officials. Police and forest officials are failing to exercise the provisions of CrPC regarding confiscation of properties of Red Sanders smugglers.AP Biodiversity Chairman Dr R Hampaiah said ,” Red Sanders smugglers have grown stinking rich and amassed huge wealth. Even local politicians are involved in it. They earned crores of rupees. Their properties are not attached. They just walk out on bail. Forest department or police are no booking cases under IPC and AP Biodiversity act. Till this incident of attack on foresters they were only booking case under bailable sections of forest act. Only the wood cutters are caught most of the top smugglers are absconding,”Smugglers in Kadapa and Chittoor district were found investing in buying huge chunk of agriculture lands.Sources in the Special Task Force said that Balaraju alias Balu who was arrested recently by Tirupati police was a driver and didn’t even pass seventh class but he is now a crorepati. Top smugglers Shabuddin son of Yakum Khan of Katiganhalli in Bangalore district, Senthil of Chennai, Shahul Hameed, Reddy Narayana of Kadapa are all now grown rich.“Even Reddy Narayana was about contest as MLA. Most of the smugglers are not chargesheeted. In 2013 forest department didn’t file any chargesheets in red sanders smuggling case,” said a police official.Though enforcement Directorate has attacked the properties of notorious red sanders smuggler Ajit Satam in 2013 June by confiscating Rs 30 crore worth of properties including eight luxury cars State forest department and police didn’t take any cue from it. ED found that Satam earned Rs 40 crore by smuggling red sanders worth Rs 104 crore. Satam a class 12 drop out allegedly invested in real estate by buying flats in prime areas and luxury cars in Mumbai. He used to smuggled out red sanders from AP to Dubai. ED has registered a case under Prevention of Money Laundering Act against him.Recently State forest department has written to ED regarding Chinese nationals involving red sanders smuggling. ED officials are yet to take up the case as there is no clarity on whether Red Sanders will be a prohibited good after government allowed international trade. Officials say if not PMLA the local police can use CRPC to attach the crime proceeds money.Shahul Hameed, a citizen of Singapore is another big man who earned hundreds of crores of rupees in the smuggling and own properties in Chennai.Maddipatla Reddy Narayana of Battalavandlapalle in Kadapa is one of the key racakteers. Reddy Narayana was an inlliterate who went to Kuwait in 1996 and he was imprisoned their for 10 years after one of his associates tipped him off. After he was deported from Dubai he formed a gang and smuggling red sanders and police said he made money of Rs 4.18 crore.An official involved in raids over red sanders smugglers said ,”Most of the top smugglers who are in Katiganahalli in Karnataka, Red Hills In Tamilnadu and those in Kadapa who are once ordinary residents have earned crores of rupees. One Sendhil of Vyasarapatti in Chennai is another key man who amassed wealth,”After the incident of killing of foresters Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy had ordered forest and police departments to attach the properties of smugglers.Chittoor Superintendent of Police PHD Ramakrishna said,”Recently Tirupati police begun the process the attach 30 acres of one of the smugglers,”

ISRO's naughty boy GSLV puts India into Cryo Club

U Sudhakar Reddy

Indian Space Research Organization’s naughty boy GSLV took off 

majestically leaving the launch pad with clouds of smoke and obeyed the flight profile 

and blasted off to create history. The GSLV D5 with super cool indigenously developed 

Cryo engine delivered satellite GSAT-14 into geostationary transfer orbit with remarkable 

precision.

After several failures in its attempt to develop cryogenic rocket technology, the ISRO on 

Sunday finally launched the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle with an indigenous 

cryogenic engine. With this Indian entered into high profile ‘Cryo club’.

Mr. K Sivan Mission Director of GSLV said ,”We used to call GSLV as naughty boy of ISRO. 

The naughty boy has become obedient today. He has meticulously done the job of injecting 

the satellite precisely. We could achieve all our targets as GSLV inject two tone plus 

satellite into the orbit. For the past one decade we are waiting for this type of 

performance from India side. The 1000 seconds of GSLV flight is fruit of  1000 days of 

hard and dedicated work of ISRO teams,”

GSLV-D5 is the eighth flight of GSLV launched from Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR in 

Sriharikota. GSAT-14 is the 23rd geostationary communication satellite built by ISRO 

which augments in-orbit capacity of extended C and Ku-band transponders.

GSLV-D3 luanched failed in April  15 2010 from SHAR. ISRO revisited the entire design of 

the GSLV apart from the indigenous cryogenic engine. On August 19 2013 ISRO aborted 

another attempt minutes before the launch after liquid fuel leaked from the second stage 

of the launch vehicle. ISRO then replaced the second stage fully and made several other 

changes.

 Mr. S Ramakirshnan director of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre said,”The first attempt of 

GSLV D 3 we almost made it but the starting process could not proceed beyond ignition. It 

was definitely a big challenge to understand what really went wrong. We had the benefit 

of the knowledge of all ISRO teams and everyone put heads together. We not only analysed 

the failure and working on what should be done to make sure next attempt a success Every 

person rose to the occasion putting their heart and should and the result is what we saw 

today,” He added ,”what happened few months back in August we went launched pad and for 

some other reasons we have to called off the launch. But in very short time stupendous 

efforts were made by the team,”