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Telangana seizes 19.6 kg ganja in two Hyderabad operations
Hyderabad's EAGLE Force, in coordination with the Railway Protection Force, seized 18.538 kg of ganja worth Rs 9.26 lakh from a passenger aboard the Konark Express on Friday. The accused, Niranjan Pradhan…
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Hyderabad's EAGLE Force, in coordination with the Railway Protection Force, seized 18.538 kg of ganja worth Rs 9.26 lakh from a passenger aboard the Konark Express on Friday. The accused, Niranjan Pradhan (22), a sewing machine worker from Odisha's Ganjam district, admitted to transporting the contraband from Odisha to Pune on instructions from a man on the run. A mobile phone was also recovered.
In a separate incident, the Prohibition and Excise Department's District Task Force arrested Wasim Sheikh, a West Bengal native, with 1.1 kg of ganja and 2 grams of brown sugar during a raid on Nallakunta Road in Kachiguda. Both accused were handed over to the police for investigation under the NDPS Act. Siasat.com reports that the EAGLE Force had recently busted an interstate syndicate and seized 400 kg of ganja in Khammam district.
The Indian Opinion
Another day, another haul. The frequent seizures of ganja on trains and in Hyderabad show the scale of the drug trade from Odisha, but also highlight a pattern: the mules caught are small players like Pradhan and Sheikh, while the kingpins remain unnamed. The 400-kg bust in Khammam suggests networks are vast, but are investigators following the money trail and arresting the financiers? The test will be how many of these cases end in convictions rather than just seizures.
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