Khammam: Police seized two kilos of ganja, three including a minor arrested

Khammam: The Police Commission focused on the menace of marijuana in urban areas and arrested three youths, including a minor, in Khammam city on Saturday. The accused have also committed vehicle theft and arrests. City ACP, SV Harikrishna and Task Force ACP, J Shiva Ramaiah, while speaking to the media, said that, following the instructions of Police Commissioner Sunil Dutt, the Khanapur Haveli police along with a team of the Task Force reviewed the vehicles in the vicinity. Sri Sri Circle in the city. They saw three people traveling on a motorcycle without registration and one of them jumped off the motorcycle and ran towards the police, who caught the other two. After inspection, police found two kilograms of ganja with him. Apart from the minor, the accused have been identified as Shaikh Khasim of Lenin Nagar (Fugado), Syed Maulana alias Afroz of Kasba Bazaar and Chintati Vijayendra Prasad of New Area of Bus Stop in Khammam. During interrogation, Maulana confessed to the police that he and Khasim had purchased ganja from Chitrakoot in Odisha and to earn easy money they sold the substance in and around Khammam. Maulana also confessed that he had stolen his motorcycle from Mahabubabad area and the minor had stolen a scooter from Khammam city area. Khasim, along with Maulana and the minor, looted gold chains for five days within the police commissionerate limits of Khanapur Haveli. The gold chain was promised to Muthoot Finance through another criminal Vijayendra. Police seized two kilograms of marijuana, a motorcycle, a scooter, receipts of three gold chains promised in Muthoot Finance, two mobile phones and Rs 25,000 in cash. The value of the seized property was Rs 2.65 lakh. They deployed teams to nab Khasim who had escaped. A case was registered under sections 8(c) and 2(b) of the NDPS Act at the Khanapur Haveli Police Commissionerate in connection with the crime.