Metro India News | Hyderabad 

The sleuths of Commissioner’s Task Force, South-East Zone team, Hyderabad along with the staff of Chandrayangutta Police Station on Thursday arrested an Inter-state Ganja peddler, who is in possession of dry Ganja.

Arrested peddler has been identified as Jadhav Shivaram (34), resident of Meghya Nayak Thanda of Sangareddy district. Police seized 200kgs of dry Ganja totalling Rs 50 lakh, Hyundai Venue Car and two mobile phones from the accused person.

On Thursday at about 8.30pm, on a tip of information the sleuths of Commissioner’s Task Force, South-East Zone team, Hyderabad along with the staff of Chandrayangutta PS intercepted Hyundai Venue Car at Chandrayangutta flyover and arrested the Interstate Ganja peddler.

On enquiry with him, it is revealed that, since 2015 he is indulging in transport of Ganja from Sileru, Vizag and also Odisha states to his customers from Maharashtra state. He along with his friend and associate Banavath Jaipal are doing Ganja business. Regularly they purchase Ganja from Subash, resident of Lamtaput, Odisha state and supplying the same to needy customers at higher prices.

Three days back they hatched a plan to purchase 200Kgs for disposal of the same at needy customers in Hyderabad at a higher price. According to their plan, three days back Jadhav Shivaram went to Odisha in his car and purchased ganja at a price of Rs 4000 per kg from Subash and they left from Odisha and came to Shamshabad to meet Banavath Jaipal to discuss about the selling of Ganja for Rs 8000 in Hyderabad. Then he instructed him to wait near LB Nagar to hand over the ganja to their customer.  

Police said that the arrested peddler was also involved in many cases previously. In this case, other accused persons Subash and Banavath Jaipal are yet to be apprehended.