NCB busts major cannabis trafficking network in Telangana News Today

  • | Tuesday | 2nd March, 2021

Chennai: The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) said it busted a cannabis trafficking network by arresting eight people and seizing 681.8 kilograms of contraband. According to the NCB acting on specific intelligence inputs by NCB Bengaluru the Hyderabad sub-zonal unit intercepted three cars near Pedda Amberpet Toll Plaza Rangareddy District in Telangana and seized the contraband. The NCB said the consignment was concealed in compressed form kept in 335 brick like packets and wrapped with brown colour adhesive tapes. It added that the illegal cannabis cultivation in India is largely concentrated around the maoist infected regions of Andhra and Odisha border. Difficult terrain and inaccessibility make this area difficult for the law enforcement agencies to conduct destruction of illicit cannabis cultivation the NCB said.

Chennai: The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) said it busted a cannabis trafficking network by arresting eight people and seizing 681.8 kilograms of contraband. According to the NCB acting on specific intelligence inputs by NCB Bengaluru the Hyderabad sub-zonal unit intercepted three cars near Pedda Amberpet Toll Plaza Rangareddy District in Telangana and seized the contraband. The NCB said the consignment was concealed in compressed form kept in 335 brick like packets and wrapped with brown colour adhesive tapes. A syndicate of eight people used to source cannabis in huge quantities from Visakhapatnam and distribute it in various parts of Pune and Osmanabad in Maharashtra. It added that the illegal cannabis cultivation in India is largely concentrated around the maoist infected regions of Andhra and Odisha border. Cannabis from this region finds its way to all over the country including Delhi Mumbai Maharashtra Rajasthan Tamilnadu Kerala West Bengal and is smuggled across the ocean to Sri Lanka. Difficult terrain and inaccessibility make this area difficult for the law enforcement agencies to conduct destruction of illicit cannabis cultivation the NCB said.

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