Overview

• Authorities seized 16.46 kg of marijuana from a sedan that crashed after a tyre burst near the Nirmala Service Station on NH-65 at Batasingaram.
• Driver Bhukya Madhu, 33, was arrested at the scene and remanded to judicial custody after being produced in court.
• Madhu told police he was moving the consignment from Rajahmundry to Nagpur under instructions from a friend known as Sadib, who paid him a ₹50,000 advance.
• He said he delivered ₹45,000 to an unidentified supplier in Rajahmundry and retained ₹5,000 for expenses.
• Investigators have registered a case under the NDPS Act and are tracing Sadib and the Rajahmundry supplier as part of a larger campaign against low-level interstate trafficking networks.