RAJAHMUNDRY: East Godavari police seized 1,000 kilograms of ganja worth Rs 2 crore in Thondangi mandal and arrested four persons. The smugglers were transporting the ganja in a generator fixed in a borewell lorry. Two of the accused are at large.
According to the police, the smugglers would purchase ganja in Visakhapatnam Agency and sell it in places like Hyderabad. They had planned to transport the ganja in a borewell lorry to hide the contraband from the police.
They removed the generator from the generator box and stuffed it with ganja bags weighing 1,000 kilograms at Balapam village under Chintapalli mandal in Visakhapatnam district.
The accused, Vipparthi Samuel and Gutam Raju Kumar, belongs to Kothapeta mandal in East Godavari district. They worked as lorry drivers. Ambati Raju, who hails from Kothapeta in East Godavari district, and Immandi Veera Venkata Ramesh of Tanuku in West Godavari district acted as pilots on a motorbike.
The main accused Madhu and his father Satyannarayana Murthy gave directions to the gang. They chose side roads instead of main roads to escape from the police and the lorry was intercepted on beach road at Addaripeta village.
East Godavari SP M Ravindranath Babu congratulated Peddapuram DSP A Srinivasa Rao and Tuni rural Inspector K Kishore Babu on cracking the case.
