The accused along with the seized ganja
Hyderabad : After evading police for nearly two months, the alleged kingpin of an interstate ganja trafficking network was arrested in Hyderabad on Wednesday night, with investigators claiming he sold nearly Rs 1.8 crore worth of ganja in the city over the past 10 months. As part of the investigation into a ganja peddling case registered at Choutuppal police station on Aug 27, an Eagle Force team, along with Choutuppal police, raided a house at Prem Nagar in Hafeezpet on Wednesday night and arrested five peddlers, including Hazarika, his associates Babu Borah, Nirmal Hazarika, Pranajal Dutta and Akan Rajbanshi, all natives of Assam. Police seized 24.7 kg of ganja and seven mobile phones from their possession. The investigation began on Aug 27 when a team intercepted a car carrying 20.3 kg of ganja at Choutuppal and arrested two couriers from Odisha, according to Eagle Force sleuths. Based on their confessions, police arrested their employer, Bikas Barik, on Aug 29. 31-year-old Hazarika came to Hyderabad in 2014 and worked as a security guard before allegedly entering the ganja trade in 2020, according to police. He was previously arrested in three Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act cases in Cyberabad in 2024.
The accused, Assam native Bhaskar Hazarika , was nabbed along with four associates in a raid by Eagle Force and Choutuppal police in Hafeezpet. During questioning, Barik allegedly identified Hazarika as his buyer.