Acting on a tip-off, the City Task Force police team arrested two persons from Allipuram area in the city on Tuesday.
The team raided a hotel room and caught two persons, Shamrao Tukaram and Datta Ashok Jadav of Maharashtra, and seized 48 kg of ganja (24 packets each weighing about 2 kgs), cash ₹1000- and two cell phones from their possession.
According to police, the two procured ganja from agency areas of Vizag and were supposed to smuggle the same to Maharashtra.
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The market value of seized Ganja is about ₹1, 92,000.. The apprehended persons along with seized property have been handed over to SHO, II Town PS for further investigation.
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