Couple on pilgrimage dies in road accident

Nizamabad rural MLA Bajireddy Goverdhan’s personal assistant and his wife were killed in a road accident in Siddipet district on Thursday while they were on a pilgrimage.

The mishap occurred when the car they were travelling in rammed into a truck that was ahead of them, on the Rajiv Rahadari highway at Pragnapur. The victims were identified as Bala Gangadhar and his wife Vijaya.

According to the police, the deceased were residents of Nizamabad town. On Thursday morning, the couple set out on a pilgrimage to the temples at Vemulawada and Yadadri in their car.

They first visited the temple at Vemulawada in Rajanna Siricilla district and were heading towards Yadadri to offer prayers. While travelling through Pragnapur, in Siddipet district, Gangadhar who was at the wheel, lost control while driving and rammed into a truck that was ahead.

As the vehicle was driven at a high speed, the front portion was completely smashed and got struck under the truck. Both of them died on the spot. The police had to use cranes to pull out the car from under the truck and later the bodies were recovered and handed over to their families after a post-mortem. Rachakonda police busted a adulterated milk supplying racket and seized huge quantities of adulterated milk and nabbed the organiser identified as Mora Narsireddy at Timmapur village.

According to police, Narsireddy had been running the business for the past few months by mixing edible oils in milk. The milk made in this unit was supplied to different hotels, sweet houses and other clients in the city. Based on a tip-off, cops raided the unit and nabbed the organiser.

In another case of adulteration, three persons including the owner of a rice mill were arrested for supplying adulterated poultry feed raw material to a poultry farm owner.

The complainant M. Laxma Reddy owns Srikanth Poultry Farm and a feed plant at Kandukur. He had been purchasing raw material for the feed plant from Sai Akhil Binny Rice mill owned by Vasa Pandu.

Recently, he became suspicious of the raw material supplied to him and found that Pandu, along with his employees, had been cheating him by mixing wood husk and sand in the feed.

Police arrested Pandu and his employees and seized the adulterated poultry feed raw material from the mill.