HYDERABAD: Bhadradri Kothagudem district police arrested two peddlers and seized 1,005kg of ganja worth Rs 2 crore from their possession on Tuesday.
Acting on specific information that ganja was being transported from Andhra Pradesh to other states through Bhadrachalam area, police set up a check point near Bhadrachalam Bridge Check Post on Tuesday. In the evening, Bhadrachalam town police team stopped a truck from Rajasthan while it was trying to pass through the check point.
“When our team checked the truck, several sacks of compressed ganja were found,” Bhadradri Kothagudem SP Sunil Dutt said.
The market value of the seized ganja was Rs 2 crore and police arrested two peddlers—Sathyanarayan Prajapathi and Karan Singh of Dumdum village in Agar Malwa district of Madhya Pradesh. The duo procured ganja from Waseem of Odisha near Seeleru in Andhra Pradesh.
