Hyderabad: Police busted an interstate drug peddling racket and arrested four persons and seized 166 kg of marijuana worth Rs 50 lakh on Friday.
The arrested persons are Vikas Baban Salve, a painter, Ranganath Yurajn Sadve, Sagar Gajanan and Amol Narayan Borde, all from Maharashtra.
According to the police, Vikas Baban Salve who wanted to make easy money by peddling drugs contacted Maik alias Rahul, the main drug source from Odisha.
The gang procured marijuana from Odisha and smuggled in into Hyderabad, which is used as a transit route and transported it to Maharashtra, where it was sold at a higher rate. On June 19, the gang went to Malkangiri in Odisha and collected 166 kg of marijuana from Rahul and they were transporting it in a car to Maharashtra via Hyderabad, when they were caught at Hayathnagar. Further investigation is in process.