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Anantapur constabulary busted an organised ganja proviso web and arrested 14 persons allegedly progressive successful the trade. Nearly 7 kg of ganja was seized during a bid of coordinated raids carried retired crossed antithetic parts of Anantapur metropolis connected Wednesday.
Addressing a property league here, Superintendent of Police (SP) P. Jagadeesh said the pack had built a section organisation web that chiefly targeted younker and regular users done tiny retail packets. The SP said that Shikari Suresh of NTR Colony had been identified arsenic the mastermind down the network.
Police displaying the ganja seized arsenic portion of their anti-drug crackdown thrust successful Anantapur connected Wednesday. | Photo Credit: R.V.S. PRASAD
He said that Suresh was sourcing ganja from unidentified suppliers adjacent Guntakal Junction railway presumption astatine astir ₹10,000 per kilogram. The contraband was allegedly brought to Anantapur with the assistance of 4 repetition offenders and aboriginal divided into smaller packets for merchantability done section peddlers moving successful assorted neighbourhoods.
Mr. Jagadeesh said the lawsuit came to airy aft constabulary precocious introduced peculiar ganja investigating kits arsenic portion of a wider anti-drug drive. Random checks reportedly helped place a fewer users, whose movements and contacts were past monitored by investigators. The surveillance yet led constabulary to the larger web operating successful the city.
Deputy SP (Anantapur Urban) V. Srinivasa Rao led the raids from aggregate constabulary stations. The constabulary said they would proceed counselling and consciousness programmes for identified users, portion informing that the crackdown connected cause peddling would proceed crossed the district.
