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The accused have been identified as Tuntun Kumar Sharma, 20, and Bindeshwari Sharma, 47, both hailing from Bihar.

A new trend is emerging where rowdy sheeters—typically involved in crimes like robberies, murders, dacoities, extortion, and property offenses—are shifting their focus to the ganja trade. Over the past two months, Hyderabad police have apprehended eight such individuals actively engaged in the illegal weed business.

Two persons involved in ganja smuggling were arrested and two kg ganja was seized from them, informed Karepalli Inspector of Police Tirupati Reddy

A group of persons attacked and killed a watchman when he asked them not to create nuisance at KPHB on Sunday night

The ganja cigarettes are priced somewhere between Rs.50 and Rs.100 per each unit. They are being secretly sold at pan shops and groceries, said police sources.

The police nabbed four persons, seized two cars, phones and others from them. The accused were Rathod Birbal, Rathod Suresh, Rathod Maruthi and Rathod Prakas, all natives of Sangareddy district.

Officials of State task force of Excise department nabbed a habitual ganja peddler from Maharastra and seized 20.6 kgs of ganja from him at Pothireddypally junction in Sangareddy town

Kumram Bheem Asifabad court sentenced Shaik Amaruddin to three months in prison and a Rs 2,000 fine for smuggling ganja in 2020, following a thorough investigation and trial

As a supportive measure, TGANB is also sponsoring the provision of high-precision weighing machines to investigation units across the State, including the Task Force, SOT, H-NEW, Clues Teams, and Railway Police

The arrested are Manoj Madhi (19) and Suresh Kabasi (21), both residents of Malkangiri in Odisha.

Acting on a tip off, the team caught Pardeep Kumar alias Ajay Sharma (27), Sunny (25), and Manish Kumar (29). Two of their associates Sahil and Subash Biswas are absconding.

Excise and Prohibition officials, led by Inspector Madhu Babu, raided Nagulapally Veeranna's field and seized the plants in 2020

The arrested individual, Babhuti Bhushan Palai, also known as Raju, is a native of Odisha who moved to the city a few years ago. Initially, he worked as a food delivery boy before leaving the job to join a construction company as a JCB driver.

The bike riding smugglers carrying a bag hit a constable Ramachari with the bike when he tried to stop them and fled. The constable broke one of his legs and was shifted Hyderabad for better treatment after first aid locally.

The arrested are Bala Hantal alias Raju of Odhisa, Srinivasulu of Kukatpally and Abhishek of Kukatpally and a native of Andhra Pradesh.

The arrested Ahmed Gulab Shaik (56), a resident of Pune in Maharashtra at the instance of Vaibhav and Deva, who are natives of Pune went to Vizag in Andhra Pradesh and purchased the weed from Bujji Babu

Providing details of the arrest, Ramagundam Commissioner of Police M. Srinivasulu informed the media that Iruguralla Sathish, a juvenile, along with Mohammad Sameer, Bheema Anudeep, Mohammad Abdul, Jadi Raghavendra Swamy, Guduru Ramu, Shaik Athar, and Shaik Sameer— all from different parts of the town— as well as Arjun Babu Rao and Mohammad Azeej from Karimnagar, were apprehended following a tip-off.

The arrested Jagadish Reddy, a native of Prakasham district, Akbar Hussain of Cuddapah and Ajay Kumar, of Kurnool district stay at Chilkurnagar in Uppal

Based on a tip-off, the State Task Force team caught the two persons near the station while they were on their way to deliver the contraband to some persons

The arrested T Shankar and C Anil, both drivers along with Praveen Varma, who is absconding, had purchased the ganja from Aruku valley in Andhra Pradesh and smuggled to the city. On information the STF team caught them at Bowenpally