The Visakhapatnam police conducted the Anti-drug and ganja campaign at Vizag Conventions in Palem on Tuesday towards the drive to make the state drug-free.
In the disposal programme Guwahati city police destroyed 3217 kg of ganja, 7.252 kg of heroin, 1.86 lakh tablets, 16.88 kg of brown sugar, 20043 bottles of cough syrup, 22.30 kg of opium, 843 grams of raw materials of brown sugar at Chandrapur area in Guwahati.
Prayagraj unit of the Special Task Force (STF) has arrested two persons, accused of smuggling contraband drugs, and seized around 100 Kg of Ganja here, officials said on Sunday.
Bapatla district SP Vakul Jindal said, "Chirala rural CI along with his staff caught the people supplying ganja at Rajiv Swagruha Colony near Vetapalem bypass and seized 55 kg from them and arrested 27 accused who are involved in the supply of ganja."
The raids were conducted in Melkote Park, Vittalwadi in Narayanguda, and Near Noori Panshop, Lallaguda areas, and the arrested accused have been identified as Shaik Asif alias Ramzan, Arif Khan, Mohd.Abdul Rahman, Mujahid Ali Khan, Toufeeq Diwan, A Susheel Kumar and Hiwarle Sai Karthik.
Police have seized 1,640 kg of ganja worth over Rs 1 crore from a truck in Assam's Karimganj district along the Assam-Tripura border, and apprehended two persons.
"The drugs include 25 kg of heroin, 12 lakh Yaba tablets, 43000 Codeine cough syrup bottles and more than 21941 kg of ganja were destroyed. The drugs traffickers have used Karimganj as a drugs trafficking route and Karimganj is located nearby the Golden Triangle. We have destroyed the seized
According to an official statement from the chief minister's office, Patnaik has ordered to provide free medical treatment to the injured and wished them a speedy recovery.
"During proper checking, the police team recovered 32 kg of ganja from the vehicle, and also arrested two people", said Numal Mahtta, Superintendent of Police, Cachar.