Medak excise arrest man with 4.1 kg of ganja
Excise officers near Pedda Shankarampet in Medak arrested 25-year-old Vaidya Praveen and seized 4.1 kg of ganja from his motorcycle. Officials valued the cannabis at ₹2.5 lakh and sent him to the Narayankhed Excise Station.
🇮🇳 Pedda Shankarampet, Medak · India
- Arrested
- 1
- Cannabis
- 4.1 kg
- Value (official estimate)
- INR 250,000
Excise Enforcement officers arrested Vaidya Praveen, a 25-year-old from
Narayankhed, after intercepting him near Pedda Shankarampet in Medak.[1]
Praveen was allegedly transporting ganja, the local name for cannabis, on a
motorcycle after procuring it from other areas.[1]
The team seized 4.1 kg of ganja and the motorcycle.[1] Officials estimated the
ganja to be worth ₹2.5 lakh (250,000 rupees).[1]
Assistant Commissioner D Gayatri said officials handed Praveen over to the
Narayankhed Excise Station for further action.[1]
Sources
- MEDAK: Excise team seizes 4.1kg ganja worth ₹ 2.5 lakh. Hyderabad Mail, 30 October 2026.
Open questions the AI reported
- The article gives no separate date for the interception; 30 October 2026 is the publication date.
- No second independent account of this seizure could be opened.
- No court outcome or charge is reported beyond his handover to the Narayankhed Excise Station.
- The page image is labelled only “Ganja K” and is not described as a photograph of this seizure, so it was left out.
- A linked headline about a Hyderabad Task Force seizure of 13 kg of ganja is a different event and is not included.
