Hyderabad, Aug. 13 -- The State Task Force of the Prohibition and Excise Department arrested five persons in two separate cases and seized 11.7 kg of ganja, 97 grams of hash oil and 110 grams of ganja in Hyderabad on Thursday, August 13.

In the first case, the Excise STF-D team arrested three persons and seized 11.7 kg of ganja, estimated to be worth around Rs 6 lakh, in the Saroornagar area.

The arrested persons were identified as Elishala Naveen, 22, Jaka Shikakumar, 26, and Vaidya Jagadeesh, 26. According to excise officials, all three were working as employees in a real estate business and had allegedly become addicted to ganja through an Odisha native who was working at a real estate office.

With the help of the Odisha worker, the...