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Police seize 28 KG of cannabis, arrest 6 peddlers

Vijayawada, Oct 11 (UNI) The police seized 28 kg of ganja while being transported illegally on two scooters and arrested six peddlers at Telaprolu village, near here.
Addressing a press conference in Machilipatnam on Friday, Krishna district Superintendent of Police R Gangadhar Rao said that a police team conducted a checking of vehicles on the national highway at Telaprolu, located 10 KM from here, on October 8. The police team noticed two persons fleeing after seeing police leaving their two scooters on the highway.
The police checked the scooters and found 28 kg of ganja. The police launched a search and arrested two drug peddlers. On the information provided by two arrested peddlers, the police arrested four more persons. Four of the arrested persons belong to Kerala and two belong to Odisha.
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