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The constabulary successful Annamayya territory person seized astir 22 kgs ganja worthy ₹6.3 lakh and arrested 3 during a raid successful Madanapalle mandal connected Friday (October 31, 2025).
According to the police, the trio was riding 2 motorbikes loaded with packets of the drug. Three mobile phones, estimated astatine ₹2 lakh, were besides seized. Two of the accused were already facing narcotics cases, and different had 3 earlier offences nether the NDPS Act. One much fishy fled and hunt is connected for him, constabulary said.
A lawsuit was booked nether the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985. Preliminary probe revealed that the gang’s modus operandi was to root ganja from a regular supplier, whose sanction the constabulary has not disclosed, and merchantability it astir Madanapalle astatine higher rates.
The latest arrests are portion of a wider anti-drug propulsion successful the Madanapalle sub-division. Over the past week, constabulary from Madanapalle Urban and Pedda Tippa Samudram constabulary stations detained 7 peddlers.
In all, 10 radical person been taken into custody, including an inter-state courier, 3 organisers and six section sellers, taking the seizure to 27.8 kgs ganja worthy ₹8.1 lakh, too 5 two-wheelers and 9 phones. Police besides identified astir 20 students and youth, who were taken to a rehabilitation centre successful Chittoor for counselling and treatment.
