Two arrested as Hyderabad SOT police seize 60 kg of ganja headed for Mumbai
Officers from Hyderabad's LB Nagar Special Operations Team and the Pocharam IT Corridor police station arrested two men who were carrying 60 kilograms of ganja in a car through Annojiguda, near Ghatkesar. Police said the consignment came from Odisha and was meant for a receiver in Mumbai's Dharavi, and they valued it at about 30 lakh rupees.
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Police in the LB Nagar zone of Hyderabad arrested two men and seized60 kilograms of ganja from a car near
a spice (masala) company on the edge of Annojiguda village in Ghatkesar mandal on 7 November 2026.[1][2][3][4]Officers of the zone’s Special Operations Team (SOT) and the Pocharam IT Corridor police
station stopped the Maruti Suzuki SX4 at about 11.30 am and found 60 packets of ganja hidden behind the
back seat.[1][3][5][6]Police said the ganja was being carried from Odisha through Hyderabad to Mumbai and
was worth about 3 million rupees.[1][3][4][5]
LB Nagar zone Deputy Commissioner of Police Anuradha said the check followed a tip-off and was ordered by
police commissioner B. Sumathi.[1]The two men were Mohammed Amer, 28, of Hafeez Baba Nagar, Bandlaguda,
and Mohd Imran Uddin, 35, of Toor Colony, Chandrayangutta[7][4]; they admitted hiding the ganja under the
rear seat.[4]Questioning showed they had bought it in Odisha from Purnachandra Mahapatra, alias Happy,
to supply Yasmin Chand Sayyad, alias Chand Bhai, who runs a shop in Dharavi, Mumbai; both are still at
large.[1][3]Police said the pair bought at about 7,000 rupees a kilogram to sell at 15,000, and had taken
two earlier loads from the same supplier.[1][5][6]
Amer had been involved in five NDPS Act cases and detained twice under the Preventive Detention Act;
Imran Uddin had four earlier cases, two under the NDPS Act.[1][7][5]Officers seized the car and two
mobile phones, and special teams were searching for the supplier, the receiver and others in the
network.[1][2][7]
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Only one account of the check could be opened; no police statement or second outlet reporting this same seizure was found.
The 60 kilograms is given as a round figure for 60 packets, with no exact weighed total.
The article names the two arrested men and the two absconding men but gives no charges by NDPS section.
No remand, charge sheet or court outcome is reported for the two arrested men.
The photograph published with the report carries only the caption "Lb nagar" and no credit, and it cannot be confirmed exactly what scene it shows.
The article refers to both the Malkajgiri police commissioner and LB Nagar zone officers; the commissionerate where the case was registered is not stated.
Telangana Today attributes the operation to the Malkajgiri SOT, while the earlier HMTV account cited in this report named the LB Nagar zone SOT; both describe the same officers and the same seizure but do not explain the difference in unit designation.
The Telangana Today article gives no names of the two arrested men, no charges by NDPS section, and no remand, charge sheet or court outcome.
No police statement naming the unit that registered the case was published in either account.
V6 Velugu does not give ages or home areas for the two arrested men; those come from The Hindu's account of the same check.
Left out arrested, as its only supporting source is not cited by the report's text.
Left out kg seized, as its only supporting source is not cited by the report's text.
Left out value, as its only supporting source is not cited by the report's text.
The article gives no NDPS section, remand date or court outcome for the two arrested men.
Disha Daily does not say whether the Odisha supplier or the Mumbai receiver has since been arrested.
Disha Daily gives a round value of about Rs 30 lakh for the consignment and does not report an exact weighed total beyond the 60 kilograms.
The article quotes LB Nagar zone DCP Anuradha at a press conference but gives no NDPS section, remand date or court outcome for the two arrested men.
The article does not say whether the Odisha supplier or the Mumbai receiver has since been arrested.
The subheading says 60 lakh worth of goods seized while the body says Rs 30 lakh for the 60 kg; the existing Rs 30 lakh figure is unchanged.
The page lists one photo whose caption matches the seizure, but its direct image address is under an August 2026 media path, so it is not listed as event media because it cannot be confirmed to show this check.
The roundup gives a combined value of over Rs 80 lakh for both seizures without a separate breakdown, so no separate value is added to the Ghatkesar report.
Kangra district police's CIA team arrested two men from Chamba district with 1.107 kg of charas in the Sokru Dam area of Baijnath. A case was registered under the NDPS Act at Baijnath police station, and police said they were questioning the men about the source of the charas and where it was to be supplied.
Police in Sirari bazaar in Bihar's Sheikhpura district seized 150 grams of ganja from a paan stall and arrested Doman Singh, also known as Prabhakar Singh. The stall stands on Purana Station Road within 500 metres of an educational institution, and the station chief said an FIR was registered under the NDPS Act.
Bandipora police arrested two men travelling on a scooty at Gunchipora near Bakshi Bund on 11 November 2026 and recovered 914 grams of a suspected cannabis powder-like substance from them. Police registered FIR No. 244/2026 at Police Station Sumbal under the NDPS Act and said they were investigating the source of the contraband and its supply links.
Police in Station Ghanpur, Jangaon district, Telangana, arrested four men accused of selling dried ganja, including the man who bought some, and seized 40 grams of the drug, a mobile phone and 1,000 rupees in cash. Circle Inspector S. Srinivas said a case was registered against the four and they were remanded to judicial custody.
