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Gaush stated that an action plan was chalked and was being implemented to curb smuggling of the substance, which was sold by some persons to make a fast buck by luring certain farmers.

The arrested person B Lokesh (21), a resident of Motinagar had gone to Andhra Pradesh and procured ganja from one Suresh, of Sompeta in A.P and came to the city.

Acting on information, the SOT team raided a shop at Balanagar and caught Manoj Kumar Agarwal (54), a resident of Jagathgirigutta.

The substance was disposed of in a barren forest area on the outskirts of Hemachandrapuram village under the direction of the District Drug Disposal Committee following environmental pollution control rules and with permission from the court.

Case should be registered against the financier and loan recovery agents who attacked and caused the death of a youth on Friday in Khammam city for not paying the EMI and they should be arrested, he said.

The two confessed to procuring the substance from Vijayawada and to carrying it to Maharashtra.

Additional DCP Naresh Kumar said that burnt ganja was seized in 13 cases in Khammam one-town, Tallada and Wyra police stations and smugglers involved in illegal transportation andillegal transportation were arrested.

The man K Ramesh, (22), a resident of Moosapet and a native of Siddipet district, was procuring ganja from one Raju of Cheriyal and selling to the customers in the city.

The arrested person Jitendra Nahak (27), who works with a food aggregator, is resident of Kothaguda in the city and native of Odhisa.

In another incident, Mallapur police caught Ravula Nitin while carrying four kg of ganja from Reguntaa to Mallapur on his bike.

A network engineer selling Marijuana (Ganja) was nabbed in Hyderabad. He manages computer systems in a popular hospital chain.

At Medchal, the SOT (Medchal) team nabbed Nilesh (28) and Sonu Kumar Prasad (21) while they were planning to sell ganja to local customers.

The police caught them at RC Puram and Allwyn cross roads Kukatpally. They were allegedly selling ganja packets to consumers for a price.

The contraband was seized along with Rs. 16 lakh cash from her," an officer said.

The men Srinivas and Upvas Kumar, had reportedly brought the contraband from AP and were looking for customers to sell when the SOT team caught them.

Acting on a tip-off, the anti-narcotics cell of the Navi Mumbai police intercepted a car near an eatery in Ajiwali village on the Shendung-Palaspe road on Friday, senior inspector Neeraj Chowdhary said.

Police have burnt 11,545 kg (11.5 tonne) of ganja seized from the accused in 33 cases registered in six police stations in the district under the supervision of the District Drug Disposal Committee here on Thursday.

Collector Anurag Jayanthi called upon the people to take part in the eradication of drugs including ganja by giving information about the circulation of banned substances

Speaking to the media here on Saturday, Commissioner of Police Sunil Dutt informed that police found three persons under suspicious circumstances near Cherukuri mango orchards, Allipuram Road in Khammam.

Ganja hot spots across the district have to be identified and register cases against ganja smugglers as well as users, he said.