Hyderabad police seize 300 kg of ganja, arrest two inter-state smugglers
Hyderabad City police seized 300 kg of ganja worth Rs 30 lakh and arrested two Maharashtra men accused of sourcing it from the Andhra-Odisha border. Both were booked under the NDPS Act for further investigation.
Hyderabad City police, with the task force and the east zone in a joint operation, seized300 kg of ganja and arrested two inter-state smugglers on 16 October 2021.[1]Police Commissioner Anjani Kumar said the ganja was worth Rs 30 lakh and that officers also seized one vehicle.[1]
The accused, Vilas Bhausaheb Dhokane and Dnyaneshwar Mohite of Aurangabad and Ahmednagar districts in Maharashtra, sourced the ganja from the Andhra-Odisha border area in the Vizag rural belt, according to the commissioner.[1]He said Hyderabad police had detected the whole gang and written to the Odisha and Andhra Pradesh police chiefs identifying names and persons in the network.[1]
Both men were booked under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act and handed over with the seized drugs for further investigation.[1]
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