Man arrested for growing ganja on terrace in Hyderabad

A Man from the Hyderabad city was arrested on Monday for cultivating cannabis also known as Ganja on his terrace by the sleuths of the LB Nagar Special Operations Team (SOT).

According to the police, after raiding a house in Vanasthalipuram, the accused Sai Revanth Varma, a ganja addict reportedly was found cultivating cannabis trees at home.

He confessed that he had brought the seeds from Andhra Pradesh to grow trees on the terrace of his house for his own consumption.Following his arrest, police destroyed 11 ganja plants and seized cannabis seeds and wrappers from his possession.

The sleuths seized the goods and the accused was handed over to Vanasthalipuram police.The Police said that Revanth would be remanded to judicial custody by booking him under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.Earlier in a similar incident in 2021, Hyderabad police arrested a man for secretly growing ganja on his terrace.It is learned that the man planted the saplings for his own consumption and to sell to customers as well.

P Venkata Narasimha Shastry, a resident of Godavari Gardens, was growing the cannabis plant on his terrace for the last four months with the intention of making money by selling marijuana to his friends and other customers.