Hyderabad, Nov. 5 -- The EAGLE Force has busted an interstate drug racket in Hyderabad. The STF team, along with the Choutuppal police, arrested five, including the gang's alleged leader, on Thursday, November 5.

Acting on a tip-off that two couriers from Assam had come to deliver ganja at the alleged kingpin, Bhaskar Hazarika's house in New Hafeezpet, the team caught the five men.

The arrested men, apart from Hazarika, have been identified as Ashish Kumar, Debasis Naik alias Pinku Naik, Babu Borah, and Nirmal Hazarika. As many as 24.7 kgs of ganja and seven mobile phones were seized from them.

The gang allegedly supplied contraband worth Rs 1.8 crore and is wanted in connection with ganja-related financial transactions amounting to Rs...