Tarun Karthick
Sri Vijaya Puram, 18 June 2025
The Anti-Narcotics Police Station has arrested a 34-year-old man following the seizure of 1.560 kilograms of illegal ganja in a well-coordinated raid conducted near Shivram Complex, Sri Vijaya Puram.
The operation was initiated after Inspector Vikas Singh, Station House Officer of the Anti-Narcotics Police Station, received reliable intelligence indicating that a person named Hemant would be in possession of a parcel suspected to contain ganja. The information was formally documented and communicated to Deputy Superintendent of Police (Narcotics), Mr. Balram, DANIPS, who immediately ordered the formation of a raiding team.
Acting on these directives, Inspector Vikas Singh, accompanied by SI Manoj Lal, ASI Sanjay Yadow, HC Laxman Rao, and constables T. Bhavani Shanker, Ratan Das, and M. Raja Rao, proceeded to the location near Shivram Complex with necessary equipment, including a drug detection kit and electronic weighing scale.
Upon reaching the site, the team identified a man matching the informant’s description standing near the Andaman Sea Airways office, holding a white plastic parcel. On being questioned, he identified himself as Kavoor Hemant Rao, a resident of Anarkali near the playground in Sri Vijaya Puram. His identity matched the one provided by the informant.
The suspect was informed of the police’s intent to search him and his parcel, and was made aware of his legal rights.
The parcel in question, a white plastic bag, was found to contain three rolls of fishing net and two packets wrapped in brown tape. Upon inspection, both packets were found to contain a dry leafy substance. Preliminary tests using a narcotics detection kit confirmed the substance to be ganja.
The two packets were weighed in front of the witnesses, and was found to be 1.560 kilograms in total.
Following the seizure, Hemant Rao was arrested under Section 20(b)(ii)(B) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985.
The entire process was documented digitally using the E-Saakshya platform.