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Despite claims made by the constabulary to cheque ganja cultivation, smuggling and merchantability from the Agency villages, contraband continues to beryllium smuggled freely from the tribal habitations, with ganja inactive being sold successful packets successful Vijayawada and neighbouring areas.
The caller apprehension of a seven-member pack — 2 conveyance thieves of Vijayawada, including a minor, and 5 accused of Kakinada and ASR districts — offered insights connected a caller mode of ganja smuggling being carried retired successful the State.
One of the accused, G. Bhanu Prakash, utilized to bargain bikes with the assistance of a insignificant lad from Vijayawada. They sold the two-wheelers to Vadlamudi Gangadhar alias Gangu Bhai of Kotananduru colony successful Kakinada district, who, successful turn, volition handover the bikes to Korra Elia alias Rithik of G. Madugula village, Gemilli Trinath alias Bathu, and Pangi Shiva of Chintapalli area, and Vanthala Kondababu alias Balaraju, autochthonal of G.K. Veedhi successful Alluri Sitharama Raju district.
The pack collected ganja from suppliers successful ASR territory and Andhra-Odisha Border (AOB) country by offering them bikes and sold the contraband successful NTR, Krishna and Eluru districts, said Police Commissioner S.V. Rajasekhar Babu, who monitored the full investigation.
The squad led by Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) K. Tirumaleswar Reddy and Additional DCP (Crimes) M. Rajarao arrested the pack astatine Auto Nagar successful Vijayawada recently. “We seized 14 bikes, stolen from Krishna, NTR, Visakhapatnam and Kakinada districts and Telangana. Besides, 5 kg of ganja was besides confiscated from the gang,” an probe serviceman told The Hindu connected Tuesday.
“The pack has been operating for the past 2 years. We are trying to hint the consumers who purchased ganja from the gang,” the serviceman said.
Police said that ganja merchantability was inactive progressive successful immoderate areas of NTR and Krishna districts, and the peddlers were targeting students. Meanwhile, leaders of immoderate teachers’ unions, disquieted implicit the expanding menace astatine acquisition institutions, urged the authorities to measurement up vigil.
“Many students are getting addicted to ganja and different drugs and spoiling their lives. We are receiving galore complaints from parents connected galore specified cases,” said a Child Welfare Committee (CWC) member.
