The Tambaram City Police on Tuesday (April 22, 2025) arrested two drug peddlers and seized 300 kg of ganja, which they had allegedly smuggled from Andhra Pradesh.
On receiving information about smuggling of drugs on Tuesday morning, a special team of police from Sankar Nagar police station began surveillance on Anakaputhur Service Road, near Bharath Petrol bunk, and nabbed two men, who have been identified as Tejas Bapu Waghmare, 28, of Solapur, and Sagar Sahadev Erande, 31, of Beed in Maharashtra.
The police seized 300 kg of ganja and a mini lorry from them. They were then arrested.
During interrogation, they confessed that they had purchased the contraband from Andhra Pradesh to supply it to labourers and residents in and around the Pallavaram and Chromepet areas of Chennai. They were sent to judicial remand.
