Hyderabad, Feb. 17 -- Two drug peddlers from Andhra Pradesh have been arrested and 101.711 kg of ganja worth Rs 25.72 lakh was seized from them in a joint operation by Kollur Police and the Special Operations Team (SOT), Serilingampally Zone here, police stated on Tuesday.
Acting on specific information, the police arrested Baswa Jaganatham (37), a farmer from Shashanapally village of Jami mandal in Vizianagaram district, and Pallapu Laxminarayana (52) from Veeranjaneyapally village of Puttaparthi district. The main supplier, identified as Raju from Chitrakonda in Odisha, is absconding and efforts are on to trace him.
The accused noticed that labourers at construction sites were consuming ganja and decided to exploit the demand to earn ea...