After evading police for nearly two months, kingpin of interstate ganja trafficking network arrested in Hyderabad | Hyderabad News
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.The accused, Assam native Bhaskar Hazarika, was nabbed along with four associates in a raid by Eagle Force and Choutuppal police in Hafeezpet.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.According to Eagle Force sleuths, 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. Based on their confessions, police arrested their employer, Bikas Barik, on Aug 29. During questioning, Barik allegedly identified Hazarika as his buyer.The Eagle team subsequently worked on the leads for nearly two months before tracking Hazarika and his associates to Hafeezpet.According to police, 31-year-old Hazarika came to Hyderabad in 2014 and worked as a security guard before allegedly entering the ganja trade in 2020. He was previously arrested in three Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act cases in Cyberabad in 2024.“Bank records show he bought ganja worth Rs 48 lakh in 88 transactions between Feb and Oct from an Odisha-based supplier at Rs 12,000 to Rs 15,000 a kilo and sold the same for about Rs 50,000 a kilo in Hyderabad. In 10 months, he made Rs 1.8 crore,” said an Eagle Force official.
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