Rs. 16-lakh PWG cash dump found

By Our Staff Reporter

WARANGAL, NOV. 13. A cash dump of the People's War Group (PWG) in which was concealed Rs. 16 lakhs was recovered by police at Somlagadda village, near Pasra, on Sunday evening.

The entire amount and six villagers are in the custody of the Pasra police, according to information reaching here.

Police sources expected the dump, which was a 100-litre Syntex drum hidden in the earth, to contain about Rs. 30 lakhs. But, people in the custody of the police confessed to spending away about Rs. 10 lakhs on medical aid and entertainments since Dasara when the drum was found protruding from within the earth.

Police sources also said that the drum was noticed on the surface of the earth, near Suddavagu stream in the village, two days before Dasara when villagers ventured there to gather firewood. The drum was wrapped in a polythene sheet. Upon opening the drum, a black bag containing two more smaller bags was found.

The villagers ran away on seeing the bags. They mustered courage and returned to open one of the bags in which was found Rs. 5 lakhs. The villagers used this amount and later opened the second bag. For some reasons, the villagers decided to bury the money recovered from the second bag in the earth here and there.

Thereafter there were clashes among the villagers over sharing the money from the second bag and this was taken to the notice of the local police. Police recovered the money from all the places where it was buried.

Police suspected that the dump may have been planted by the PWG Khammam district committee member Bade Nageswara Rao, who was killed in an encounter near Eturunagaram in Warangal district last year. There was an entry in his diary which was recovered after the encounter. It pointed to the concealment of cash dumps to the tune of Rs. 70 lakhs near Parsa.

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