19 kg of ganja worth Rs 9.50 lakh burned in Karimnagar disposal
Karimnagar district police burned about 19 kg of ganja, valued at Rs 9.50 lakh, seized in 47 NDPS cases across various police station limits in Jagityal town. District SP Ashok Kumar said the disposal followed the district Drug Disposal Committee, NDPS Act provisions and environmental pollution control guidelines.
🇮🇳 Jagityal town, Karimnagar district, Telangana · India
Cannabis
19 kg
Agencies
Karimnagar district police, district drug disposal committee
Karimnagar district police in Jagityal town destroyed about 19 kg of ganjaseized in 47 cases registered in various police station limits.[1]
District SP Ashok Kumar said the ganja was worth about Rs 9.50 lakh and that the
burning followed NDPS Act provisions and environmental pollution control
guidelines.[1]
The SP said the district had special arrangements for monitoring ganja transport
and sale and warned that strict action would be taken against those turning
young people into slaves of drugs.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Cannabis
19 kg
Value (official estimate)
INR 950,000
Agencies
Karimnagar district police; district drug disposal committee
Police seized five kilograms of ganja at Chillagumpu in Dammapeta mandal, Bhadradri Kothagudem district. Circle Inspector Nagaraju Reddy said police would expand patrolling and act firmly against ganja transport and sales as local cases rise.
Muzaffarpur Sadar police in Bihar raided an old hut-house in Yaduvanshi Nagar based on a confidential tip-off and seized 78 grams of ganja and 67 empty plastic packets used for making retail cannabis packets. The main accused, a resident of Bahadur Nagar, escaped when police arrived; a case was registered under the NDPS Act and police said they were searching his likely locations to arrest him.
A joint team of Jaynagar police and Bihar excise officers seized 73.4 kg of ganja from a pickup and arrested two smugglers from Patna and Vaishali. The pickup was also seized and no charge or court outcome had been reported.
Bokaro Government Railway Police say they recovered about 41 kg of ganja in four train seizures over the past eight months, with no smuggler arrested. The force says three hauls came from the Dhanbad-Alleppy Express and one from the Dhanbad-Bhubaneswar Express, likely moved from Odisha.
