Overview
- The Special Task Force of Telangana's Prohibition and Excise Department raided a spot near a Mallepally fuel station and seized 10.16 kg of dry marijuana.
- Officers arrested Prem Chandrakanth Hatwalne, 27, Sakat Shankar, 21, and Kasbe Raju, 40, on suspicion of transporting and selling the drug.
- Police said they also recovered three mobile phones as evidence during the operation.
- Three identified associates — Shivraj Hatagade, Akshay, and Jawed of Nagpur — are absconding, and a search is underway to find them.
- The Nampally Prohibition and Excise Station is now probing an alleged supply route from Nagpur into a local wholesale network that police say fed peddlers in Mallepally.