In major crackdown on the illegal ganja (marijuana) trade, the Narcotics Control Bureau's Bengaluru Zone personnel made their largest-ever seizure, recovering over 2,000 kg of the narcotic from a truck in Hyderabad, officials said on Monday. In a statement, NCB Zonal Director, Amith Ghawate, said that the seized drug, valued around Rs 15 crore, was stashed between cashew nut shells in the truck.

"The entire stockpile of ganja was individually concealed between loads of cashew nut shells. The accused had systematically compressed and packed two kg bricks in a plastic bag and all in all, we seized 1,080 such bricks in this raid alone," he said. Ghawate said that the smugglers had procured such quantities to supply and distribute in Pune and Mumbai.