Even after a month after change of regime in Andhra Pradesh, some of key officials who are known for their proximity with the previous regime and allegedly involved in their large scale illegal and irregular activities, are shamelessly continuing their efforts to destroy evidence.
The records of the Mining and Pollution Control Boards were destroyed without a fuss. On Wednesday night, TDP activists found the drivers burning the files and documents brought in sacks on a large scale on the Krishna embankment. The locals questioned them when they found the records brought in sacks lying on the road on the Yanamalakuduru embankment.
As the locals are already aware of mining, pollution control board and sand mining, they tried to stop them. As a result, those who were burning the files tried to escape from there and were chased and caught. Documents and hard disks belonging to Mining and Pollution Control Boards were burnt.
The driver confessed that the documents were burnt on the orders of former Pollution Control Board Chairman Sameer Sharma. The police took him into custody. It was found that Nagaraju, who was working as a car driver of former Pollution Control Board chairman Sameer Sharma, burnt the files along with another person. Sai Gangadhar, who was OSD to Revu Mutyala Raju, who served as CMO in the previous government, also served as Senior AM in Pollution Control Board.
It seems that Sai Gangadhar has performed the duties of the CMO as well as in the mining branch. The driver Nagaraju admitted to the police that the files were moved from the Mining Department Head Office on the instructions of Section Head Srinivas and Sameer Sharma OSD Rama Rao. He said that on the orders of Sameer Sharma, the documents and hard disks in the office were hidden in jute bags, and then they were brought in cars and burnt.
Many bags of documents belonging to the Pollution Control Board and AP Mineral Development Corporation were burnt in this incident. It seems that this incident took place in order to prevent the details of sand mining and sales as well as unofficial payments from being revealed during the previous government’s tenure.
The files were moved in Innova car number AP16 EF 2596 at 9 pm on Wednesday. Those files burnt have pictures of former Minister Peddireddy Ramachandra Reddy and former Pollution Control Board Chairman Sameer Sharma, and those who saw them informed Penamalur MLA Bode Prasad and TDP leaders. So they reached there. Before this, those who came in the Innova vehicle fled from the spot.
