20 held in ganja cases over past year in Ashwaraopet mandal
Ashwaraopet police said 20 people were arrested in ganja cases across the mandal over the past year, including users, middlemen, sellers and growers. Police said cordon-and-search checks ordered by the district superintendent would continue in several villages each month.
🇮🇳 Ashwaraopet mandal, Bhadradri Kothagudem district, Telangana · India
Ashwaraopet station house officer Sai Kishore Reddy told mandal residents in a
statement that police would crack down hard on anti-social activities.[1]He
said 20 people had been arrested in ganja cases across the Ashwaraopet mandal
area over the past year.[1]He said those arrested included people who used
ganja at home, those who acted as middlemen and those who sold it.[1]He said
ganja plants had also been grown in Pakalagudem village in the mandal, and that
those growers were arrested and sent to jail.[1]
He said villages were being cordoned off and checked on a war footing under the
orders of district police superintendent Rohit Raj.[1]He said
cordon-and-search checks would henceforth be held in four or five villages every
month to suppress anti-social activities.[1]He said the drive would target
ganja as well as cockfights and people who play, organise or take part in card
games.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
20
Agency type
Police
Activity
Possession, Sale, Cultivation
Setting
Home
Case stage
Under investigation
Region
Telangana
Date
Publication date
Sources
Suryaa Newssuryaa.comTEసాయి కిషోర్ రెడ్డి ఆధ్వర్యంలో గంజాయిపై ఉక్కుపాదం**గడిచిన ఏడాదిలో 20 మందిని అరెస్టు చేశాం*
Open questions the AI reported
No ganja weight, plant count, area or value was published, so none is recorded.
No breakdown of the 20 arrested by role, village, date, identity, charge or court outcome was published, beyond users, middlemen, sellers and Pakalagudem growers being included.
The report gives no separate date for the arrests; 13 November 2026 is the publication date and is used as the incident date, covering roughly the preceding year.
The whole account rests on one local outlet's account of the SHO's statement; no second source or agency release was found.
The announced monthly cordon-and-search checks in four or five villages are stated plans, with no outcome yet reported.
Suryaa illustrated the Aswaraopet ganja roundup with a desk portrait of an officer at PS Aswaraopeta and no seizure visible, so no event photo is listed.
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Goreyakothi police in Siwan seized about 60 kg of ganja loaded in a Scorpio at Dudhra village and detained its driver. Police valued the consignment at about Rs 12 lakh and said it was suspected to have been smuggled from Nepal.
Two alleged ganja smugglers who were waiting for a bus in Kondagaon, Chhattisgarh, were arrested, and police recovered 16 kg of ganja from them. The seizure also included SIM and ATM cards, and the ganja was valued at 8 lakh rupees (Rs 800,000).
New Mandi police stopped a truck at a highway check near Pachenda bridge in Muzaffarnagar on 14 November 2026 and seized 174 kg of ganja worth about one crore rupees. The truck driver was arrested and the truck seized, while the truck owner accused in the smuggling is absconding.
