Six Delivery Boys Arrested for Door-to-Door Ganja Supply in Hyderabad and Secunderabad
Six arrested, four absconding; excise cops seize ganja and alert delivery firms
Hyderabad: Excise cops on Wednesday booked a gang of 10 interstate NDPS drug suppliers, who were doing door-to-door delivery of ganja to customers alongside other items in posh twin city localities. The delivery executives belonged to a popular grocery aggregator.
Six of them have been arrested while four are absconding. “The accused came to the city from Odisha, Khammam and Biha. They stayed in service apartments in Banjara Hills and worked as delivery boys selling ganja,” officials said.
According to SP of STF, Anji Reddy, the interstate gang worked as delivery boys, but along with essential items, they were also peddling the contraband by door delivery to their customers.
He said, “These youths have confessed they are drug addicts, came to the city for employment and stayed together in hotels and service apartments.
The peddlers procured ganja from Bidar and Odisha, consumed it and sold the contraband to customers in posh localities.
The youths were caught by the Excise STP’s A team while they were working in hotels and selling ganja through the back door. Excise cops seized 3.3kg of ganja along with six cell phones and two two-wheelers from their possession.
“In view of this, we sent letters to Blinkit and similar delivery companies to check their employee’s background,” said Shahnawaz Qasim, state director of excise enforcement.
The arrested youths were Srikanth of Karnataka, Kishore Manikonda, Umesh Kumar of Orissa, Syed Anwar of Khammam and Simhachal Rao of Orissa. “Amar, Zoya Ali, Mohammad Ali, Irfan and Babulpuri from Karnataka are at large,” officials said.
