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Telangana’s Excise and Prohibition Department has reported grounds seizures during the four-year play betwixt 2021 and 2025. The section registered 4,194 NDPS cases, arrested 7,131 accused persons and seized 24,236 kilograms of ganja betwixt 2021 and 2025. Officers besides uprooted 21,035 cannabis plants, confiscated 1,824 vehicles and recovered a scope of synthetic drugs, including 2.8 kilograms of MDMA, 689 LSD blots, 46.47 kilograms of hash oil, 383 grams of cocaine, 701.3 grams of heroin and 227.6 grams of opium.
As per the accusation shared by the department, the condemnation complaint stands astatine 3.23%, with 2,659 NDPS cases inactive pending crossed courts. Since the enactment of Telangana, 71 convictions person been recorded successful excise-booked cases, with sentencing accelerating successful caller years — 16 cases successful 2023, 11 successful 2024 and a grounds 22 cases successful 2025. Officials enactment that this condemnation complaint remains higher than the 2.29% recorded by the constabulary department.
Excise Enforcement officials said that the emergence successful convictions is opening to make deterrence among cause offenders. They property the betterment to greater procedural subject successful filing complaint sheets, preparing panchanamas and signaling statements, which they accidental has strengthened cases during trial. The heightened crackdown follows instructions issued by Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy to marque Hyderabad drug-free and to curb ganja and narcotics usage crossed Telangana. Acting connected these directives, Prohibition and Excise Commissioner C. Harikiran and Enforcement Director Shahnawaz Qasim person intensified raids targeting ganja networks, synthetic drugs and non-duty-paid liquor.
Mr. Qasim said caller convictions awesome a affirmative displacement successful the combat against narcotics. “Only erstwhile a transgression is punished does it make fearfulness successful everyone to perpetrate a crime. It is simply a bully improvement that the accused successful excise cases are being punished successful caller times. We volition instrumentality steps to guarantee that the Excise Department machinery works much efficaciously connected marijuana and drugs,” helium said.
