The team found that the ganja supplier had allotted a room in his home in Gachibowli where clients could ‘smoke’. “Initially, Prashanth used to go to Vizag, buy ganja there, and sell it here. A patternOver five months ago, when Telangana Prohibition and Excise department officials caught a person with ganja, they learnt that he had procured it from Araku. Little did they know then that this was slowly becoming a pattern: ganja consumers and peddlers venturing into Araku on their own to buy the contraband in large quantities. Officials said that earlier people did not think twice before going to Dhoolpet and buying ganja.

Source: The Hindu March 21, 2019 18:56 UTC