Ganja worth `2 crore seized, two arrested

800 kg of contraband was being transported to Uttar Pradesh THE POLICE seized 32 bags of ganja, an 12tyre truck bearing number of AP07TM7596 and two mobile phones.

In a major drug bust, sleuths of special operation team (SOT) of the Shamshabad police on Sunday seized 800 kilograms ganja worth `2 crore and arrested two interstate gang members who were transporting the contraband to Uttar Pradesh.

The accused were nabbed at Shamshabad while transporting the narcotic substance in a national permit truck from Rajamahendravaram in Andhra

Pradesh to Bulandshahr in Uttar Pradesh.

Acting on a credible tipoff that a huge amount of ganja was being transported in a truck along the Shamshabad highway, the SOT members alerted the Shamshabad law and order police who intercepted the truck at Pedda Golconda X road, on ORR service road and arrested truck driver Kushi Mohammed and cleaner Sonu Singh and seized the truck laden with 800 kilograms of raw ganja.

The main accused Sikander, the receiver, and Somu alias Bhagwan, the supplier, both natives of Uttar Pradesh, are at large. The SOT recovered the contraband concealed underneath the load of cotton seed waste bags on the floor of the truck.

During interrogation, the accused confessed that Somu and Sikander had been transporting the contraband for the past few months from

Rajamahendravaram and Odisha Agency area to Bulandshahr in Uttar Pradesh via Hyderabad.

Khushi Mohammed and Sonu Singh confessed that they had transported the contraband previously also and to avoid check-posts in Telangana, they routed the truck through bypass roads.

The police seized 32 bags of ganja, an 12-tyre truck bearing number of AP07TM7596 and two mobile phones, said Cyberabad police commissioner Stephen Raveendra, in an official press release.