Hyderabad, June 13 -- Telangana's Elite Action Group for Drug Law Enforcement (EAGLE), along with Khammam police, foiled an interstate drug smuggling attempt on Saturday, June 13, leading to the arrest of five people and the seizure of 200 kg of ganja worth Rs 1 crore.

EAGLE had been monitoring the movements of the accused since June 7, as they travelled towards the Andhra Pradesh-Odisha border areas and procured a large consignment of ganja before proceeding towards Telangana and Maharashtra.

The arrested people have been identified as Amol Nanoba Gore, 35, Laxman Nagnath Kare, 26, Vasantha Jadhav, 40, Shaik Ansar, 32, and Shaik Rahmath, 30.

Two more accused, identified as Prabhu, a resident of Udgir, Maharashtra, acting as a receiver...