Ganja peddling racket busted in Andhra Pradesh

TIRUPATI: Tirupati East sub-division police arrested three smugglers and seized 12 kilos of ganja from the accused.

According to

DSP

T Murali Krishna, the accused, identified as Dhana Lakshmi, Koppala Ananda Raju and

Matam Surendra Reddy

, had taken a house on rent near Mangalam quarters in Tirupati to run their ganja smuggling racket.

The gang used to procure ganja at cheap rates from the Agency area in Visakhapatnam and sell it at a high price. The DSP said a search is on to nab the key member of the gang, identified as Kannan, from Tamil Nadu.