Excise arrests Bihar man with 956 g of ganja at Kallakal venture
Telangana Excise District Task Force officers arrested 22-year-old Jyothish Kumar, from Bihar, and seized 956 grams of dry ganja during surprise checks at KLR Green Venture in Kallakal village, Manoharabad mandal, Medak district. Circle inspector J. Gopal said the cannabis would fetch about Rs 60,000 on the open market, and the man and the ganja were handed to the Narsapur excise circle office.
🇮🇳 KLR Green Venture, Kallakal village, Manoharabad mandal, Medak district, Telangana · India
Excise Department officers in Telangana’s Medak district arrested a 22-year-old
man from Bihar and seized956 grams of dry ganja from him during surprise checks
at KLR Green Venture in Kallakal village, Manoharabad mandal.[1][2]The man was
identified as Jyothish Kumar, 22, a native of Bihar.[3][2]Officers stopped and
searched Kumar as he appeared suspicious at the venture, the site of the Excise
Department’s District Task Force checks.[1]
District Task Force (DTF) circle inspector J. Gopal, who announced the seizure,
said the ganja would fetch about Rs 60,000 on the open market.[1][2]The special
team acted on the orders of excise deputy commissioner Chandrayya Goud and
superintendent L. Narasimha Reddy, led by CI Gopal.[1]Officers handed Kumar
and the seized ganja to the Narsapur excise circle office for further action.[1][2]
Excise staff Pundareekam, Waheed, Sravanthi and Shahid were among those who took
part in the checks.[1][2]Gopal said the department keeps round-the-clock
surveillance on the transport, storage and sale of prohibited drugs and asked
the public to report ganja information to officials immediately.[1]
Photos and video
Page photo published with the report on the Kallakal seizure of 956 grams of dry ganja. Photo: Suryaa NewsPhoto details
Neither account gives a separate date for the checks; 5 November 2026 is the publication date of both reports and is used as the incident date.
No case number, court appearance, charge detail or remand outcome was reported.
The HMTV Live page carries the same article text as the Suryaa report, so it does not provide independent confirmation of the details.
The seized quantity is small (956 grams) and the value of about Rs 60,000 is the excise officer's open-market estimate.
The page photo is captioned only with the seizure headline and is not clearly established to show the seized ganja or the arrested man, so it is listed as a link, not a cover.
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