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AP: Police seize 140 kgs of ganja, 2 peddlers held

Anakapalli, Oct 16 (UNI) The police seized 140 kilograms of cannabis while allegedly being transported in a lorry and arrested two peddlers at Kasimkota near here on the NH 16.
SP Tuheen Sinha told the media here today that on the tip off, a police team led by Inspector A Swamy Naidu conducted a check of vehicles on the NH 15 on Thursday and found 140 KGs of ganja concealed in a secret chamber in a lorry. The seized ganja is worth over Rs 70 lakh.

The police arrested lorry driver Saddam Hussain and held a 17 year old minor boy. The SP said that a special chamber was created under the driver's seat in the lorry cabinet especially to transport cannabis illegally.

The ganja was being taken to Rajasthan from Odisha. The arrested drug peddler Saddam Husain was produced before the court which sent him to judicial custody. The minor boy was produced before the juvenile justice board in Visakhapatnam.
The SP said that the police and the EAGLE wing are making endeavours to make Anakapalli district as ganja-free district and warned of invoking the PD Act against the drug peddlers.
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