The Special Operations Teams (SOT) of Cyberabad, together with the regulation and order police, nabbed two interstate gangs in two completely different circumstances for smuggling marijuana utilizing Hyderabad as transit level to Maharashtra. Officials caught them in possession of 1.228 kg of the contraband and likewise recovered a country-made firearm together with 14 rounds of ammunition and two magazines.
In the primary case, the SOT Medchal zone together with Dundigal police nabbed a gang from Uttar Pradesh and Haryana. The accused, recognized as Mohammed Inam, 30, Banti Kashyap, 26, Lalith Kumar Kashyap, 20, Mohammed Saad, 21, had been caught in possession of the country-made weapon, two magazines, 14 stay rounds, 508 kg of marijuana and two vehicles.
Their most important receiver Bablu Shinde from Solapur, Maharashtra and most important provider, one Subhash from Araku Valley in Andhra Pradesh, are at massive, stated the police.
“The gang has been involved in property offences in the past and had hatched a plan to smuggle drugs to make easy money. They procured the country-made firearm as a protection and were involved in transporting the contraband across borders,” stated the police.
Based on a tip-off, the gang was nabbed close to the Outer Ring Road (ORR) in Dundigal on Tuesday. In the second case, the SOT Madhapur Zone, together with the Narsingi police, apprehended two suppliers from Maharashtra, recognized as Vishal Chandrakanth Shinde and Sagar Bhaban Deshmukh. The males had been smuggling 720 kg of marijuana in a medium-sized truck and had been recruited to produce the contraband from one Rahman of Andhra Pradesh to Aurangabad, Maharashtra.
“Rahman recruits drivers to smuggle the drugs across State borders to his dealers in Aurangabad. He offers the drivers ₹12,000 each per trip. In their current trip, they had concealed the drugs by covering them in empty vegetable crates,” added the police.
During the wee hours of Tuesday, they had been nabbed on the service highway in Manchirevula by the police.
Source: www.thehindu.com
