"chinese-manja"

Three persons were arrested for selling banned Chinese manja here on Sunday. Manja worth Rs 19,200 was seized from them

Venkatesh sustained a gash around his throat when the thread got entangled around his neck

The ban on Chinese manja was declared in January 2016, under Section 5 of Environment Protection Act, 1986. Any person found violating the rules is liable for imprisonment up to 5 years or fine up to Rs 1 lakh or both.

Task Force along with the Rein Bazaar police raided a godown and arrested one person on charges of selling the banned Chinese Manja.

Mancherial Inspector B Narayana Naik said the deceased was V Bheemaiah (39, a daily wage earner and native of Gollapalli village in Jagtial district.

Hyderabad: The Commissioner’s Task Force (Central) caught three persons who were found selling Chinese manja and seized a huge quantity of manja from them. The apprehended persons were identified as T Pavan Singh (33), Mahaveer Prasad (35) and Yonith Goel (21). The three were running shops at Begum Bazaar, Shahinyathgunj and Mangalhat areas and selling […]

According to GHSPCA, mostly kite flyers use the manja or glass coated thread in competition for kite fights

Hyderabad: Three shops were raided by the Commissioner’s Task Force (South) police at Mirchowk and Kalapather on Wednesday and 59 bundles of synthetic manja was seized by them. Acting on information, the Task Force team under the supervision of S Raghavendra, Inspector Task Force south team, raided one shop at Gulzar Houz and two shops […]