At least four arrested, ganja in various forms seized during excise raids across Telangana

Excise teams successful Vikarabad, Sangareddy and Hyderabad person made a bid of arrests and seizures successful coordinated actions against ganja cultivation and transport, recovering much than 110 plants and implicit 3.6 kg of adust ganja successful abstracted operations. Officials besides seized a car, mobile phones and illicit nutrient valued astatine implicit ₹23 lakh successful total.

In Vikarabad, the District Task Force officials discovered 108 ganja plants being cultivated secretly among cotton, turmeric and reddish gram crops during inspections connected Tuesday. Officials estimated that the plants would person yielded betwixt 20 and 25 kg of dried ganja, valued astatine astir ₹12 lakh.

Excise Superintendent Vijaya Bhaskar Goud has written to the District Collector seeking suspension of Rythu Bandhu benefits for farmers recovered cultivating ganja.

The plants were traced to fields belonging to 2 individuals, identified arsenic Errolla Prabhakar and Errolla Pentaiah successful Barwad colony of Kotepally mandal. Excise unit recovered grounds that immoderate mature vegetative plants had already been harvested and sold.

A lawsuit has been booked by the Tandoor excise constabulary and probe is nether way.

In a abstracted cognition successful Sangareddy district, excise officials intercepted a car transporting ganja from Odisha. The inspections, conducted adjacent Andhra Colony astatine Sri Venkateswara Garden connected NH-65 successful Malkapur, led to the seizure of 1.7 kg of ganja.

The squad besides seized ganja worthy ₹50,000, a car valued astatine ₹11 lakh and 3 mobile phones worthy different ₹50,000. Three men, identified arsenic J. Arun Nayak, L. Sai Pranay and N. Vijayender were arrested, portion different fishy from Odisha remains absconding.

Meanwhile, successful Hyderabad, the State Task Force (STF) - A squad seized 1.2 kg of ganja successful the Mallepally and Office Nagar areas adjacent Nampally Railway Station.

A antheral identified arsenic H. Sumit was arrested and a lawsuit has been booked naming different accused, identified arsenic Upadhyaya Biju, Chanda, Ajay, Niranjan and Sohal, who are presently astatine large.

The seized ganja was handed implicit to the Nampally excise presumption for further probe.