In a further attempt to break the financial backbone of senior Telugu Desam Party leaders of Anantapur district – former MP J C Diwakar Reddy and his brother and former MLA J C Prabhakar Reddy, the YSR Congress party government has ordered seizure of another 154 buses belonging to JC Travels, promoted by the brothers.
Joint Transport Commissioner of Road Transport Authority Prasada Rao announced on Tuesday that as many as 154 buses of BS-III category belonging to JC Travels had been registered illegally and were being run for the last three years. They are now seized, he said.
Of these 154 buses, as many as 50 buses were registered in the name of Jatadhara Industries and 104 buses in the name of C Gopal Reddy. As many as 33 buses were registered in Karnataka, 15 in Telangana and 101 in Andhra Pradesh.
“We have registered 27 FIRs in Anantapur and three in Kurnool against the JC brothers. We have also written a letter to the Centre to blacklist these vehicles in the database and give instructions to all the states to seize these buses wherever they ply,” Prasada Rao said.
As of now, 62 vehicles belonging to JC Travels were seized till now and another 39 vehicles would be seized shortly. In Telangana, 12 vehicles were identified and information had been passed on to that state with a request to seize them.
“We have already warned those who bought vehicles from JC Travels and also identified 71 duplicate insurance policies,” Prasada Rao added.