Five sentenced to seven-year RI for cultivating and selling ganja in Jagtial

Five persons were sentenced to 7 years of rigorous imprisonment by the First Additional District and Sessions Judge S. Narayana successful Jagtial connected Monday for their engagement successful cultivation, proviso and merchantability of ganja. The tribunal besides imposed a good of ₹10,000 connected them.

The accused Soyam Raju, a autochthonal of Adilabad district, Pala Raj Kumar, Bommidi Saichand, Bala Naresh, and Koluguri Sai Srujan, each from Jagtial district, were recovered blameworthy nether the provisions of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.

According to the prosecution, the 5 accused were arrested aft being caught with 1.25 kilograms of adust ganja by a constabulary patrol squad astatine Nookapalli connected December 23, 2022.

The consequent probe revealed that the main accused Soyam Raju utilized to cultivate ganja successful his fabric tract and supplied it consumers on with the co-accused, who themselves were ‘regular consumers’ of ganja.