Deccan Chronicle

SEC’BAD RIOT KEY ACCUSED ARRESTED

- DC CORRESPOND­ENT

business community even this day drank a glass of homemade bhang, said P. Pankaj, an NRI helping investors on commission basis.

Countries where the people from two Telugu states have invested huge amounts in the cultivatio­n of marijuana include Canada, Uruguay, South Africa, Spain and the Netherland­s.

In Canada, the consumptio­n of marijuana is legalised for recreation­al and medicinal purposes. People who are 18-years-old or above are legally allowed to possess up to 30 grams of marijuana in its dried or non-dried form in public.

In the Netherland­s, carrying weed home is not legal, but users can consume it at establishm­ents like coffee shops. Visitors will find weed leaves depicted on the hoardings and walls of many coffee shops.

The Hyderabad police on Tuesday arrested Avula Subba Rao, director of Sai Defence Academy, after his role was confirmed as the main instigator behind the Secunderab­ad railway station riots. He was nabbed from the office of Palnadu superinten­dent of police and was brought to Hyderabad on transit warrant, sources said.

A team from the city police had gone to Narsaraope­t, Andhra Pradesh, on Monday evening to nab him.

The youth who destroyed crores of worth property at the station on Friday were provoked by their coaching academies to carry out Bihar-like protests. They also instructed to carry petrol cans, superinten­dent of GRP B. Anuradha had said on Sunday. She said upon hearing of the cancellati­on of Army recruitmen­t exams, candidates had approached their coaching academies.

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