According to the police, Kondal, a native of Andhra Pradesh was arrested in a drug case in 2017 and jailed.

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Hyderabad: The Rachakonda Police busted an interstate drug smuggling racket and arrested five persons along with 82 kilograms of marijuana here on Tuesday.

The arrested persons were P.Teja, a postgraduate, K. Kondal, Subedar Vinod Singh, V. Nagarjuna and Chinnabbai. One person, Raju, was absconding.

According to the police, Kondal, a native of Andhra Pradesh was arrested in a drug case in 2017 and jailed. Soon after being released on bail, he resumed drug peddling.

“He procured the marijuana from agency areas of Visakhapatnam and bordering villages in the Andhra-Odissa region. The drug is packed in small sachets and transported to Hyderabad in buses,” Rachakonda Additional Commissioner of Police G.Sudheer Babu said.

They were selling the drug to customers including youngsters and students in and around Dhoolpet and at educational institutions in the city.

They were caught with the drug in Meerpet.