Four Arrested With Dry Ganja Worth Over One Lakh Rupees in Gadag

Police in Gadag arrested four people and seized illegal drugs and equipment worth one lakh seventeen thousand rupees. Inspector Siddharameshwar Gaded led the team from the Gadag Rural Police Station that caught the suspects near an apartment complex in Gangimadi. The group included Manjunath Sukadev Jadhav, aged thirty-six, from Gadag; Bashasab Abdulsaab Buaji, aged twenty-six, from Gangimadi; and Akash Nagnath Kadakekar, aged twenty-three, along with Ravi Shivaji Kadakekar, aged twenty, both from Solapur in Maharashtra. The suspects reportedly sourced the banned substance from Solapur, divided it into small portions, and sold each packet for two hundred to four00 rupees. Officers recovered two point three four kilograms of dry cannabis, a weighing scale, plastic wrapping materials, a mobile phone, and twelve hundred rupees in cash from them. Superintendent of Police Mithun H.N. praised the investigating officers for their work.

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Law enforcement agencies frequently target interstate drug supply chains that move prohibited items from neighboring states into local towns. Small-scale peddling networks often rely on mobile phones and basic packaging materials to distribute substances to buyers in urban areas.