Railway Protection Force police arrested three people who were carrying ganja made into chocolates on a train in September 2026 and took 2 kg of the drug into their possession.[1]

Kakinada Superintendent of Police Bindumadhav said police were registering cases against those held and seizing ganja with the help of Eagle teams, technology and drones.[1] The newspaper said the suspects carrying ganja were mostly young men, and that people addicted to the drug were committing crimes.[1] Police search the district’s outskirts and abandoned houses using drones, with Eagle teams keeping watch, while awareness programmes are held in schools, the newspaper said.[1] The paper reported that ganja is moved at night from the state border areas of Odisha and the agency areas, the tribal tracts, along back routes through Polavaram district and handed to middlemen.[1]