Excise officials were attacked by tribal farmers in Narayankhed mandal while attempting to remove ganja saplings hidden within a cotton field. One constable was injured in the scuffle. The police later intervened, uprooted the illegal crop, and arrested the accused farmer.
The driver Mohammed Sharif of Zahirabad was hired by a ganja smuggler Yusuf Sahid Khan of Mumbai to transport ganja from Odisha to Humnabad in Karnataka.
