44 arrested; arms, drugs seized in crackdown

HYDERABAD:

Police arrested 44 suspects in various operations and recovered illegal weapons and large quantities of narcotics, gutka and liquor.

Police conducted targeted operations from June 22 to June 28 against criminals, drug dealers, gutka suppliers, and absconders. The arrests included 4 for criminal activity, 20 for drug peddling, 2 for theft, 1 for motorcycle lifting, 14 for selling gutka/mainpuri, and 3 for other offences.

Recoveries included 2 pistols with bullets, 1 carbon and 4 cartridges, 1,390 sachets of mainpuri, 1,800 gutka sachets, and 1,312 kg of raw mainpuri material.

In anti-narcotics operations, police also seized 25 liquor bottles, 28 litres of illicit liquor, 191 grams of ice, and 3.165 kg of charas.