Three arrested with 20 grams of ganja at Elkathurthi vehicle check
Police in Elkathurthi arrested three men from Damera village with 20 grams of ganja and three mobile phones during a vehicle check on the village outskirts. A case was registered and all three were sent to court for remand, sub-inspector Narasimha Rao said.
🇮🇳 Elkathurthi, Warangal, Telangana · India
- Arrested
- 3
- Cannabis
- 0 kg
Police in Elkathurthi arrested three men with 20 grams of ganja, the local name
for cannabis, during a vehicle check on the outskirts of the village.[1] The
check was near Kakatiya Vantage, and the three tried to flee when they saw the
officers before being chased down.[1] Officers seized the ganja and three
mobile phones.[1] The men were identified as Roddaboyina Sridhar, Matteda
Jaswanth and Puppala Ganesh, all from Damera village.[1]
The three were going to sell the rest when police caught them, the officer said.[1] Police said a preliminary investigation showed the three had been using
ganja for two years.[1] Police registered a case and sent all three to court
for remand, Narasimha Rao said.[1]
Sources
- ఎల్కతుర్తిలో గంజాయి పట్టివేత.. ముగ్గురు నిందితులు అరెస్ట్. Disha Daily, 30 October 2026. In Telugu.
Open questions the AI reported
- The article gives no separate date for the vehicle check and arrests; it reports the purchase on 28 October and was published on 30 October 2026.
- No market value was given for the 20 grams seized; the only sum reported is the Rs 1,500 Sridhar paid for 30 grams two days earlier.
- The article names no court, no sections of law and no lawyer for the three, and gives no later hearing date.
- Only one source reporting the arrest could be opened.
- Left out, as its quotation was not found in Disha Daily: Elkathurthi sub-inspector Narasimha Rao said Sridhar had bought 30 grams of ganja for Rs 1,500 in Huzurabad on 28 October from a man named Akash, and that he and Jaswanth smoked some of it that night.
