HYDERABAD: Excise enforcement team arrested four
peddlers
and seized 24.1kg of
ganja
and a bike from their possession.
The team intercepted two peddlers—Raju Singh, 35, of
Ibrahimbagh
and Pooja Bai, 32, of Shankarpally—at Ibrahimbagh near
Taramati Baradari
and seized 21.2kg ganja from their possession.
Pooja’s husband Naresh Singh was arrested in possession of 20kg of ganja four months ago and is in judicial remand. After Naresh’s arrest, Pooja along with her brother in law, Raju has been selling ganja to customers at Rs 1,000 for 30gm. “She recently purchased 1kg ganja from a peddler in
Karnataka for Rs 4,000,” assistant excise superintendant N Anji Reddy said.
The excise team also raided a house in Jawahar Nagar, Yousufguda and seized 1.1 kg ganja from A Tarun Kumar, 36. Tarun told excise officials that he procured the ganja from Araku in
Visakhapatnam for Rs 4,500 a kg.
Subsequently, excise sleuths raided a house in Mangalhat near Shivanand Hotel and seized 1.8kg ganja from Rajesh Singh, 43. Rajesh confessed that the ganja was supplied to him by Laddu Singh and Vinod Singh, absconding accused from Dhoolpet. The peddlers were handed over to concerned stations for further probe.