Visakhapatnam, Sep 20 (UNI) The Visakhapatnam police has destroyed around 63.87 tonnes of dry ganja, worth over Rs 13 crore in the presence of Drug Disposal committee at the dumping ground near Kapuluppada, outskirts of the city on Friday.
After years of wait, the officials of Vizag Rural Police got legal nod to destroy tonnes of seized dry cannabis in Vizag region.
It was the third time that huge quantity of dry ganja was destroyed by a single day. DIG (Visakha Range) LKV Ranga Rao and Superintendent of police (Visakha Rural) Babujee Attada said that the ganja destroyed on Friday was the seized stock that accumulated over the past ten years in over 455 cases at various police stations limits under Paderu, Anakapalle and Narsipatnam Sub-Divisional Police limits in the district.