Four held in Suryapet ganja case as police hunt two main suspects
Suryapet town police detained four men from Suryapet during checks near Amma Garden on the Chivvemla road, saying they funded a ganja operation that two other suspects were running with cannabis brought from the Odisha border. The four were arrested and sent to judicial remand under the NDPS Act, while special teams searched for the two main suspects, who were at large.
🇮🇳 Chivvemla road near Amma Garden, Suryapet town, Suryapet district, Telangana · India
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Suryapet town police detained four people during checks on the evening of Friday
6 November near Amma Garden on the Chivvemla road, after some of those stopped
tried to run off.[1]
Police said questioning showed that two main suspects, Bonta Avinash and
Somapangu Nani Vardhan, had brought ganja from the Odisha border area and tried
to sell it.[1]The inspector said four people in the case were found to have
arranged the money for the operation.[1]The four arrested, all from Suryapet,
were named by police as Rupani Sandeep, 20, Boddhu Bharat, 21, Pulusu Sai Vishal
Goud and Sheelam Srikanth Lingaiah, 24, and were sent to judicial remand.[1]Police said special teams were searching for the two main suspects, who were
still at large.[1]
A case was registered against the suspects under the NDPS Act and police said it
was under investigation.[1]Police inspector Venkataiah, who gave the details
at a media conference at the town police station on Saturday, said the force had
put illegal ganja transport and sales under special watch.[1]Venkataiah
warned that youths should stay away from intoxicants and that anyone
transporting, selling, buying or using ganja would face strict action, and asked
the public to report illegal activity with assurances that informants’ details
would be kept confidential.[1]
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Lead picture published with the Suryapet report under the headline 'four arrested in a ganja case'; the page gives no caption or photo credit, so whether it shows this arrest is not established.Photo details
The account gives no weight, packet count or value for the ganja involved, so no cannabis quantity is recorded.
The article gives no separate date for the checks; the text places them on Friday evening and 7 November 2026 is the publication date, so 6 November is used.
The account does not say exactly where on the Chivvemla road the checks took place, only near Amma Garden, so the place is given at locality precision for Suryapet town.
The report does not state whether any ganja was seized at the scene or whether the four were held only as the people who arranged the money, so no seizure figure is recorded.
No court step beyond judicial remand was reported, and the charges under the NDPS Act were not specified.
The two main suspects named in the report were still at large, so their age, arrest and court status are unknown.
Only the Andhra Prabha account of this event could be opened; no second news report or police statement confirming the arrests was found.
The page's lead picture has no caption or credit, so whether it shows this arrest, and who took it, is not established.
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