Hyderabad, May 2 -- Two inter state drug peddlers from Odisha and Assam and three consumers were arrested on Thursday, May 1 and 14 kg of marijuana was seized from them.

The accused were identified as Ranjan Nayak from Odisha and Gobin Bonia from Assam who are drug peddlers. Kushal Singh, Dablu Thakur and Aditya Singh Chauhan are consumers from Hyderabad.

According to the police, the drug peddlers procured marijuana at low rates from dealers in other states and smuggled it to Hyderabad and sold it at higher rates to consumers. The accused were booked under the NDPS Act.

In a similar case, a drug peddler from Odisha was arrested in Hyderabad in February. The accused, identified as Abal, was found smuggling marijuana from Odisha to Mahar...