Interstate drug peddling gang from Odisha busted in Hyderabad

Cops seize 7 kg of marijuana worth Rs 2.4 lakh from B Takri, Ghouri Jhara and Dhanarjaya Khila — all from Malkangiri in Odisha

Hyderabad: The Task Force (South-East) team, along with the Afzalgunj police, nabbed a three-member interstate drug peddling gang, including two women, and seized 7 kg of marijuana worth Rs 2.4 lakh at Gowliguda on Thursday.

The arrested gang members have been identified as B Takri, Ghouri Jhara and Dhanarjaya Khila, all from Malkangiri in Odisha.

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According to the police, the trio confessed that on the instructions of Sanjay, the kingpin from Malkangiri, they procured the drug from sources locally and came to Hyderabad in a private bus to deliver it to a drug peddler in Mangalhat.

They were nabbed while waiting to deliver the contraband.

Efforts are on to identify and nab other members of the gang.