Hyderabad: The Hyderabad Narcotics Enforcement Wing (H-NEW), in a joint operation with Afzalgunj police, arrested an interstate ganja provider and three peddlers. Over 5 kg of contraband and property value `3 lakh was seized from them.
The principle accused was recognized as Satla Ganganna, a resident of Utnoor, Adilabad. The gang was arrested as they had been travelling in an autorickshaw close to the Mahatma Gandhi Bus Station. The peddlers, Byagari Ravikanth, Byagari Niraja, and her husband Byagari Ananthaiah, are residents of Rajendranagar. They used to obtain the ganja from Ganganna and had been promoting it to shoppers within the twin cities.
Throughout interrogation, Ganganna confessed that for the previous two years he was procuring the ganja from an Assamese cultivator within the state border of Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh.