India, Aug. 8 -- In a major operation against drugs, the Pune crime branch's anti-narcotics cell 2 arrested two alleged ganja peddlers and rounded up 84 people who turned up to buy the contraband after police officers posed as drug dealers in the Hadapsar-Phursungi area on Thursday.

The police said that the operation was launched after receiving specific information that an accused, who was out on bail in an earlier narcotics case, had resumed selling ganja at multiple locations across Pune. Investigators alleged that he had recruited a group of youths and was running an organised drug distribution network.

Acting on the tipoff, the anti-narcotics cell 2 first raided the Tukai tekdi area in Hadapsar where officers posing as customers ca...