Hyderabad: With over 20 NDPS cases against her, a daily average earnings of around Rs 2.60 lakh, owner of immovable asserts worth crores of rupees, gangster Neetu Bai from Dhoolpet tops the wanted list of TG excise police.
Special teams from TG-STF have spread a dragnet to nab Neetu Bai alias Ganja Neetu alias Ganja Bai alias Ganja Kalavati, a close relative of recently arrested woman Don Angoori Bai, 46.
Neetu Bai, 45, entered ganja trading as her family business. She married Munnu Singh and has two sons. Neetu has over a dozen note counting machines in her house. She is a bulk ganja importer and supplier, not only in the twin city but in the entire state, police said.
Neetu, referred to as Kalavati in Visakhapatnam, Odisha, Jharkhand, MP, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh and UP, is said to be having a strong nexus with ganja cultivators from these states. She has changed her modus operandi after police started ‘Operation Dhoolpet’. Our special teams will get her very soon, he said.
Neetu Bai, having over 300 peddlers and suppliers working under her, is said to have the strongest network in twin city.
She also has a strong network of consumers who want doorstep delivery, mostly from IT fields, police said, adding Neetu Bai has assets worth crores of rupees in posh localities in the twin city.
She was arrested by TGANB and Golconda police in August 2023 Police found that she had a bank balance of over Rs 180 crore and immovable properties of over Rs 4.80 crore that were seized by the police.
She did not give up her illegal business after her release till March this year when TGANB again arrested her with 13 customers and contraband worth over Rs 23 lakh.
She was released in 2022. We have installed CCTV cameras in identified areas, developed a strong network after forming an SIT. She is under constant surveillance, a senior excise officer told Deccan Chronicle.
During questioning, Angoori Bai and others disclosed the name of Neetu who used to stay in Dhoolpet and operates both in Dhoolpet and Nanakramguda.
The state excise department arrested Anguribai and 150 of her workers during ‘Operation Dhoolper`.
During investigation, we found out that Nitu Bai’s full name is Kalavati Nitu Bai, 45, popularly known as Ganga Neetu Bai who owns a house in Lodhabasti Nanakramguda.
