Hyderabad, July 28 -- An inter-state drug peddling gang was busted and 935.611 kilogram of ganja worth Rs 5 crore was seized from them by the Elite Action Group for Drug Law Enforcement (EAGLE) of the Telangana police on July 26.

The gang was operating between Odisha and Maharashtra and was intercepted by the Khammam unit of EAGLE in coordination with the Rachakonda police. A truck full of ganja was being escorted by an Innova car and the vehicles was stopped and 35 bags of High-Density Polyethylene (HDPE) were found beneath empty crates.

The accused confessed that the operation was being run by Pawar Kumar Badu, a repeat offender under the NDPS Act, a native of Maharashtra, in coordination with Sachin Gangaram Chouhan, who is abscondin...