Hyderabad: In a first, probably in the world, 44 transgender persons have been selected as Hyderabad city traffic police assistants. They were selected from among 58 contenders in the qualifiers that included a 800 metres running race, high jump and long jump competitions, which were held at Goshamahal police stadium here on Wednesday. Orders of their appointment as traffic assistants …
Hyderabad: Marijuana is being smuggled through internal ‘safe’ roads, rather than the highways connecting AP, Maharashtra and Karnataka, due to increased vigil, the police said. They are adopting routes that allow them to travel to these places without entering Hyderabad city or even taking the ORR, the police said. The smugglers also travel in a convoy of two or even …
HYDERABAD: The arrest of Bengaluru-based businessman Ch. Upendranath Reddy, a key functionary of the V-Empire, a subsidiary of QNET was the result of a two-month long effort by sleuths of Hyderabad police’s Central Crime Station. Although cops had gathered clues based on information available to them, his arrest was delayed as the accused had gone into hiding after the fire …
Hyderabad: In a special drive, the Nalgonda police seized 15 bags of gutka worth Rs 5 lakh and 30 kilos of cannabis worth Rs 3.5 lakh from interstate smuggler gangs in raids at different places. On Monday morning, the Kethepalli and Kattangur police teams seized a stock of marijuana and caught two persons – one from Uttar Pradesh and a …