Four arrested with 1 ton of ganja worth crores of rupees

Hyderabad: Police said he had made an advance payment of Rs 8 lakh to Sanyasi Rao, a ganja supplier in Odisha. Rathod bought 100 empty boxes to hide the packets of ganja. They were caught during investigation in Bolarum. TS Narcotics Bureau (TS NAB) and Bolarum police arrested four people from Karnataka who were smuggling one tonne of ganja, worth Rs 3.5 crore, in a van and car. Bureau SP D. Sunita Reddy said, they had purchased ganja from the AP-Odisha border for sale in Karnataka and Maharashtra. He identified the accused as Sakaram Rathore, Ahmed Khan, Digambar Ramu Pawar and Ajay Ramavatar Chaurasia. Rathore, who faces five cases of ganja smuggling, used to have a panipuri kiosk. He left it to take up a job in a sugar factory and then got into the ganja smuggling business. After this he involved others with the help of his cousin Jaidev Chauhan, who is absconding. 80 kg ganja seized in secret operation LB Nagar Special Operation Team and Uppal police arrested two people for smuggling 80 kg of ganja worth Rs 24 lakh. To ensure that his vehicle was not checked, he had pasted a ‘On Government Duty’ sticker. Rachakonda Police Commissioner D.S. Chauhan identified the two as Kunchala Srinu, 53, of Prakasam district, and driver Kaila Ramu, of Anakapalle. Mason Srinu has already been arrested five times on charges of ganja smuggling. Their main supplier on a large scale is Dhanraj. Workshop organized on insurance fraud CID Additional Director General of Police Mahesh M. Bhagwat on Tuesday. He was speaking at a workshop organized by a private insurer on checking life insurance frauds. A press release issued by TS-CID said senior CID officers participated in the workshop.