Hyderabad: Adilabad police have arrested two persons transporting ganja from Andhra-Odisha border area to Maharashtra via Telangana on the interstate border at Talamadugu, Adilabad, and seized 900 kg of dry ganja and a container truck used for transportation, all worth 2.25 crore from their possession. Four others associated with the network, who were piloting the truck in a car, managed to escape.
Based on a tip-off, the container was intercepted at a check post and, on searching, 900 kg of ganja packed in 292 packets were found in the container, Adilabad SP Gaush Alam said. The arrested persons — container driver Wasim Ansari, and cleaner Arman — were working for Maharashtra-based ganja peddlers for the past three years and transported the contraband last year from the forests areas of Raipur, Sukma, and Jagdalpur districts in Chhattisgarh to Maharashtra.
They were to deliver the consignment to peddlers in Buldhana and Dhule districts of Maharashtra for 1.5 lakh commission. The duo were arrested and remanded in judicial custody.
