hyderabad it was an auction of a different kind on saturday sangareddy excise and prohibition special mobile court was crowing literally at that with 31 roosters and once the auction of the birds was over the government was richer by rs 446 lakhpatancheru police inspector n venugopal reddy said 36 bidders took part in the unique auction one rooster was sold for rs 30000 and another one went for rs 27000 the auction of 31 roosters fetched rs 446600 to the government exchequer venugopal reddy saidwhile the details of the bidders were not available with police it is speculated that at least some of them were bidding on behalf of those who owned these roosters these birds were recovered by cops during a recent raid on illegal cockfights organised at a mango grove in chinnakanjerla on the night of july 6 police alleged that the main organiser was chintamaneni prabhakar former tdp mla of denduluru in andhra pradesh he along with several others had managed to escape from the scene that night when cops raided the placeafter a public notice the roosters were auctioned at the mobile court in the presence of magistrate hanumantha raomeanwhile police sent a notice to the former mla asking him to appear before the investigating officer in the case of gaming act however his phone was switched off after the raid on july 6 police arrested 21 people for organising and participating in the rooster fight betting cops seized rs 13 lakh cash 26 fourwheelers and 27 cellphones from the accused apart from naming the former mla as the main organiser police have also released his photos and videos at the mango grove however while talking to media personnel in eluru a few days after the raid prabhakar said i accept that they were my photographs but in the photos i was not running away or participating in any illegal activity while coming from karnataka i was invited for lunch at patancheru everyone knows i am obsessed with rooster fights they are my weakness but as it is illegal people at the event informed me that police might raid the place and advised me to leave so before the cops arrived i left the place and reached my home in ap safely in my car with my roosters