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Hyderabad: The Cyberabad Special Operations Team along with the Chandanagar police busted a marijuana racket operating from Odisha to Hyderabad and arrested three persons. Police seized 81 kilograms of marijuana from them. Officials said the gang procured the marijuana from dealers in Chithrakonda village in Odisha and smuggled it to Hyderabad in private vehicles to […]

Hyderabad: The Gopalapuram police caught a Nepal native and seized 60 grams of marijuana from him on Saturday. The arrested person, Dinesh Aavji alias Pedda Nepali (20), a daily wage worker and pavement dweller at Mettuguda, is a native of Kathmandu. According to the police, Aavji came to Hyderabad in 2018 in search of work […]

Hyderabad: In a major catch in recent times, the Shamshabad Police Special Operations Team along with the Rajendranagar police busted a narcotic drugs racket being operated from Odisha to Maharashtra via Hyderabad and arrested three peddlers here on Saturday. Police seized 560 kilos of marijuana, a truck, a car and mobile phones, altogether worth Rs […]

Hyderabad: As many as 109 farmers will be ineligible for availing Rythu Bandhu scheme since Agriculture department disqualified them for facing cases for cultivating marijuana. The list of 109 farmers was prepared by the Prohibition and Excise department after collecting relevant information from all the excise stations across the State. The cases were booked only […]

Hyderabad: The Malkajgiri Police Special Operations Team along with the Bhongir police busted a drug peddling racket and arrested four persons on Monday. The police seized 120 kg of marijuana, two litres of hashish oil and a car, altogether worth Rs.35 lakh from the gang, which was smuggling the drug from Araku Agency area to […]

Hyderabad: The Malkajgiri Police Special Operations Team along with the Ghatkesar police busted a drug racket operating from East Godavari of Andhra Pradesh to Mumbai via Hyderabad and arrested one person at Jodimetla on Monday. Police seized 102 kg of marijuana and an auto trolley, altogether worth Rs.20.5 lakh. The arrested person was B.Ravi (29), […]

Hyderabad: The Cyberabad police arrested seven persons on charges of drug peddling in the last one week. This was after the police stepped up the drive against marijuana with raids being conducted on a daily basis. Accordingly, between March 3 to March 9, four cases were booked and seven persons were held while 865g of […]

Hyderabad: The Prohibition and Excise department here on Saturday arrested two persons on charges of smuggling marijuana and hashish oil from Araku in Visakhapatnam and selling the same to persons known to them in the city. The arrested persons have been identified as Harshavardhan (24) and Vijay (25). Hashish oil worth Rs.4 lakh and marijuana […]

Hyderabad: Smoke it, rub it or vape it. But they must have it. Hash oil, one of the costlier derivatives of marijuana and which is different from hashish, is now in demand among drug users in the city, courtesy the crackdown by law enforcement agencies on plain marijuana. The oil, extracted from fine quality marijuana […]

Hyderabad: As the surveillance on the flow and transportation of marijuana in the State intensifies, drug peddlers appear to be looking for newer routes and places to transport the psychotropic drug substances clandestinely from the agency areas in Andhra Pradesh. The recent arrests by the police that disrupted the transport chain show that drug peddlers […]

Hyderabad: The Shamshabad Police Special Operations Team along with the Miyapur police busted a drug peddling racket operating between Odisha and Maharashtra and arrested six persons here on Friday. Police seized 800 kilos of marijuana, a car and a truck, altogether worth Rs.1.80 crore. The arrested persons were Ashok Kule, Amol Athawale, Rahul Kumar Singh, […]

The arrested persons were V.Tirupathi from Nagarkurnool, P.Manktha from Nalgonda, P.Ravinder from Hasthinapuram and V.Kalyan from Nagarkurnool.

Hyderabad: A four-pronged strategy adopted by the Prohibition and Excise department in coordination with the Police department in controlling the menace of smuggling marijuana has yielded good results with almost all the repeat offenders cooling their heels in various prisons across the State. The same strategy also enabled the Excise department to make the dingy […]

Mount surveillance on those persons involved in NDPS Act cases

Hyderabad: The Cyberabad police stepped up its drive against marijuana trade in its limits, as part of which, between December 8 to 12, six persons were caught for drug peddling and over 65 kg of marijuana was seized. Continuous raids were being conducted on a daily basis. Bulk buyers, local retailers and drug transporters were […]

Hyderabad: Two persons were caught on charges of illegal possession and selling of heroin and marijuana at Ramgopalpet late on Friday. Police seized 30 grams heroin and 200 grams of marijuana from them. According to the police, Lal Chal Momin (23) and his cousin Jasimuddin Momin (28), both construction workers from West Bengal, who had […]

Sangareddy: Sangareddy Rural police seized a huge haul of 600 kgs of ganja which was being transported from Thuni in Andhra Pradesh to Maharastra. The value of ganja is estimated at Rs 40 lakh. During the regular checks up conducted on Monday at Kandi Junction on NH-65, the Sangareddy Rural police and CCS police caught […]

The two pick-up associates and one van driver belonging to the Amazon Kancharapalem First Mile station who have aided the accused have also been arrested.

The gang was transporting the drug from Andhra Pradesh to Maharashtra via Hyderabad.

Police arrest a five-member interstate gang operating from Odisha, seize 15 kg marijuana