Overview
- In Telangana, EAGLE Force and Chityal police arrested dhaba owner Gurmeet Singh on the Hyderabad–Vijayawada highway and seized nine kilograms of opium poppy husk classified as an intermediate quantity under the NDPS Act.
- Police said the dhaba operation targeted long-haul truck drivers, with the accused allegedly buying poppy husk at ₹1,800 per kg and selling it at ₹6,000 per kg after procuring about 20 kg in total.
- Hyderabad authorities reported two separate urban hauls as excise teams seized 6.33 kg of ganja in city checks and EAGLE Force arrested two men in Nalgonda with about 4.5 kg allegedly sourced from Odisha via a social media contact.
- Guntur district police arrested 11 suspects in two cases and seized 4.4 kg of ganja, with investigators citing procurement from Odisha and Araku and a plan to raise money for a supplier’s legal costs.
- Guwahati police said coordinated raids recovered more than nine kilograms of ganja across two busts, while Jammu and Kashmir Police reported nine suspects arrested or detained across multiple districts with NDPS cases and PIT-NDPS orders.