Overview
- Police carried out a joint cordon-and-search in Mangar Basti (Habeeb Nagar) that involved about 1,100 personnel from specialised units including the Narcotics Enforcement Wing, Task Force H-FAST, Central Crime Station, CAR forces and local police.
- Officers report seizing 150 sachets of ganja, one kilogram of dry ganja, 32 bottles of cough syrup and liquor bottles during the sweep.
- Sixty-five people were taken into custody, described by police as 15 drug offenders and 50 suspected property or habitual offenders who face criminal charges or existing non-bailable warrants.
- Senior commanders including Commissioner V.C. Sajjanar, Additional Commissioners S.M. Srinivas and Tafsir Iqbal and DCP Gaikwad supervised and directed the early-morning operation on the ground to ensure tactical control and quick results.
- Regional enforcement teams also made related arrests and a large ganja seizure in Khammam, which police say points to wider smuggling routes and signals follow-up investigations and case filings across jurisdictions.