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The Bapatla territory constabulary seized 6.940 kg of ganja and arrested a habitual offender for allegedly smuggling contraband done obstruction routes, District Superintendent of Police B. Umamaheswar said connected Saturday (May 16, 2026).
The accused, identified arsenic Suhaib Rehman, 30, a autochthonal of Kerala, was apprehended during associated inspections conducted by the police, Government Railway Police (GRP) and Railway Protection Force (RPF) unit connected trains connected Friday (May 15) nether the jurisdiction of Chinnaganjam constabulary station. A lawsuit was registered nether applicable sections of the NDPS Act.
During interrogation, constabulary recovered that the accused had allegedly purchased ganja for ₹30,000 from an unidentified idiosyncratic successful Rayagada, Odisha, and concealed it successful his question bag. Police revealed that the accused was a repetition offender with 4 ganja-related cases and 1 battle lawsuit registered against him astatine Hosdurg constabulary presumption successful Kerala.
Addressing the media, the SP said the territory constabulary was moving to marque Bapatla a ganja-free territory and warned stringent enactment against those progressive successful the sale, transport, oregon depletion of narcotics.
Mr. Umamaheswar said that successful the past 4 months, constabulary had registered 9 cases, arrested 53 persons linked to inter-state cause networks and seized astir 273 kg of ganja. He said peculiar drives were being conducted astatine railway stations based connected quality inputs that smugglers were progressively utilizing bid routes. Police besides recovered 29.5 kg of ganja and 70 ganja-laced chocolates targeting youth.
The SP said 647 consciousness programmes had been conducted district-wide and warned that repetition offenders could look stringent action, including detention nether the PD Act and externment from the district.
