Excise department intensifies crackdown against ganja, drugs and non-duty paid liquor

The Telangana Prohibition and Excise Department has intensified enforcement against ganja, drugs and non-duty paid liquor arsenic portion of its 99-day ‘Progress Plan’ aimed astatine preventing the amerciable substances from entering the State.

As portion of the initiative, peculiar enforcement teams person been constituted to behaviour raids crossed Telangana. The teams see 4 Special Task Force (STF) units of the Enforcement Department, enforcement teams and district-level task unit teams which person been tasked with carrying retired surveillance and raids. Officials said the operations are aimed astatine curbing the merchantability of amerciable substances and preventing gross nonaccomplishment caused by non-duty paid liquor.

Authorities person besides identified respective locations successful and astir Hyderabad arsenic hotspots wherever surveillance and raids volition beryllium intensified. These see Dhoolpet, Narayanguda, Fatehnagar, Sitaphalmandi, Neredmet, Serilingampally, Kukatpally, Moosapet, Dilsukhnagar, LB Nagar, Uppal, Nagole, Annojiguda and Muguru slums. In addition, inspections are being accrued astatine railway stations and cheque posts to show the question of amerciable substances.

Officials said non-duty paid liquor is being transported into Telangana successful important quantities from Delhi, Noida, Goa and Haryana. Special drives are being conducted to observe specified consignments arriving done airports, trains and roads. In Hyderabad, inspections conducted astatine the Shamshabad, Saroornagar and Meerpet excise stations led to the seizure of 335 litres of liquor successful 43 cases implicit a two-month play successful 2025. During the aforesaid year, 3,631 litres of liquor were seized successful 337 cases astatine the 3 stations. Across Telangana, 16,103 litres of liquor were seized successful 1,251 cases.

Enforcement teams seized 565 kg of ganja successful raids conducted during 2025, portion Special Task Force teams seized 1,346 kg of the contraband during the aforesaid period. In Khammam territory alone, 185 kg ganja was seized successful 23 cases successful 2 months.

Officials said that on with ganja, substances specified arsenic OG Kush, MDMA, hashish lipid and cannabis laced chocolates were besides seized. This apart, 686 cannabis plants were confiscated during the raids.