2 held for growing ganja in Nirmal

Nirmal: Police arrested two persons, who are cultivating banned ganja as the inner crop of red gram and seized 10 kgs ganja worth Rs 2 lakh near Rajeshwar Thanda under Sarangapur Mandal in Nirmal district on Thursday.

Acting over a tip-off, the police led by Superintendent of Police C Shashidhar Raju raided the Thanda where banned ganja cultivation is going on. Speaking to the media, the SP said that two persons - Ratan Singh and Nanak Singh – were cultivating ganja in between reg gram as an inner crop in their agricultural land and ganja trees had grown to 4 to 8 feet high. The police also seized 10 kgs dried ganja worth Rs 2 lakh, which is ready for sale from the accused and handed over the case to the Excise department, who registered a case. An investigation is on.

Additional SP AR Venkat Reddy, Excise Inspector Sampath Krishna, Sarangapur Mandal Revenue Officer Ramesh, RI Venkat, Special Branch Inspector Venkatesh, Sarangapur SI Younis Ali, Nirmal rural SI Krishna Kumar, Laxmanchanda SI Vinay, Narsapur SI Ramana, SB SI Premdeep, Srinivas Rao and others were present.