Ganja smuggling racket busted, six arrested
The Hindu
Main accused operating from a dhaba on NH-16
The East Godavari district police busted a ganja smuggling racket, which has links to several States. They arrested six persons of Visakhapatnam, Odisha and Punjab, said Superintendent of Police M. Ravindranath Babu.
The gang was procuring ganja from the Chitrakonda forests in Odisha and supplying it to Punjab, Nagaland and other States, the SP said on Monday.
On a tip-off, a team led by Peddapuram in-charge Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) S. Murali and Prathipadu CI K. Kishore Babu conducted the raids and seized the ganja stocks being loaded in a lorry near Annavaram.
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