Middlemen luring Sitheri tribals to cut red sanders in AP, says activist fact finding team led by Henri Tiphagne from People’s Watch, an NGO, observed that tribals of Sitheri hamlet in Dharmapuri were exploited by middle men, who engage them in red sanders smuggling in Andhra Pradesh

He demanded the state police to track down brokers who lure gullible workers from Tamil Nadu to chop red sanders in the neighbouring state. 

The fact finding team had visited Sitheri village in Dharmapuri on Sunday to investigate the death of two villagers Raman and Balakrishnan in a shootout by the Forest Department in Andhra Pradesh on November ..........................................................