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The Hyderabad City Police person intensified enforcement against the sale, retention and proscription of banned Chinese manja up of the Sankranti festival, seizing contraband worthy ₹1.24 crore and arresting 143 persons, officials said connected Thursday (January 8, 2026).
The Police Commissioner, V.C. Sajjanar, said a peculiar thrust was launched crossed the metropolis to curb the amerciable commercialized of synthetic and nylon kite string, which remains prohibited owed to the information it poses to people, birds and the environment. He said determination would beryllium zero tolerance and that anyone recovered progressive successful selling, storing oregon transporting Chinese manja would look transgression action.
Most violations successful South West Zone
As portion of the drive, constabulary registered 103 cases and arrested 143 persons, seizing 6,226 bobbins of Chinese manja with an estimated marketplace worth of ₹1,24,52,000. The South West Zone reported the highest fig of violations with 34 cases and 46 arrests, starring to the seizure of 3,265 bobbins worthy ₹65.30 lakh. This was followed by the South Zone with 27 cases, 35 arrests and seizures worthy ₹37.22 lakh. The East Zone reported 18 cases and 29 arrests with seizures valued astatine ₹6.02 lakh, portion the South East Zone recorded 9 cases and 10 arrests. The Central, North and West Zones reported six, 5 and 4 cases respectively.
The Commissioner’s Task Force registered 67 cases, arresting 87 persons and seizing banned manja worthy ₹68,78,000.
Additional Commissioner of Police M. Srinivasulu, DCPs Khare Kiran Prabhakar, G. Chandra Mohan and Gaikwad Vaibhav Raghunath, Additional DCP Ande Srinivas Rao and different elder officers were contiguous astatine the property conference. The Commissioner congratulated the officers and unit progressive successful the thrust and presented currency awards successful designation of their work.
