Three engineering students, including Buchala Aditya and Gollapalli Nikhil, were arrested for the fourth time for drug peddling in Warangal. Police seized 36 kg of ganja from them, with a case filed at the Narcotics Police Station.
Published Date – 17 February 2026, 05:50 PM
Hyderabad: Three engineering students were arrested for the fourth time for drug peddling by the EAGLE Force on Monday.
The arrested are identified as Buchala Aditya (20), a B Tech third year student, Vadlakonda Yeshwanth alias Mintu, and Gollapalli Nikhil alias Chintu (19), an intermediate second year student.
According to the police, the duo was caught while they were transporting the ganja on a motorcycle on the Warangal to Karimnagar road. The ganja, weighing around 36 kilograms, was concealed in a bag. One of their associate Mintu, was also caught in the follow-up operation.
“Aditya and Nikhil, along with eight others, had pooled in money for buying ganja for personnel use and to sell it. Both of them were buying the ganja from one Kalavena Praveen Kumar, a native of Karimnagar and presently residing in Odisha, at Rs 2000 a kilogram and later consuming it with their friends and also selling it to customers,” said an official of EAGLE Force.
A case is registered against them at the Narcotics Police Station, Warangal.
