Hyderabad: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday carried out raids on the home of Neetu Bai allegedly concerned in ganja smuggling and promoting it to prospects close to her home in Nanakramguda.
The raids have been carried out as a part of cash laundering investigation. Neetu Bai, who was allegedly concerned in a number of ganja instances, is presently absconding.
The ED has taken up investigation primarily based on a FIR issued by Elite Motion Group for Drug Regulation Enforcement (EAGLE) in Telangana. In June 2026, she evaded arrest after a particular operation by the EAGLE in Nanakramguda.
Neetu Bai, 48, a resident of Dhoolpet, has allegedly been promoting hashish from Lotha Basti in Nanakramguda, focusing on software program professionals working within the IT hall. Officers mentioned she has remained underground for greater than a yr whereas persevering with the commerce by associates.
With over 20 NDPS instances towards her, a each day common earnings of round Rs 2.60 lakh, proprietor of immovable asserts price crores of rupees, Neetu Bai from Dhoolpet tops the wished checklist of TG excise police.
Particular groups from TG-STF have unfold a dragnet to nab Neetu Bai alias Ganja Neetu alias Ganja Bai alias Ganja Kalavati, an in depth relative of just lately arrested girl don Angoori Bai.
Neetu Bai entered ganja buying and selling as her household enterprise. She married Munnu Singh and has two sons. Neetu has over a dozen be aware counting machines in her home. She is a bulk ganja importer and provider, not solely within the metropolis however in all the state, police mentioned.
Neetu, known as Kalavati in Visakhapatnam, Odisha, Jharkhand, MP, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh and UP, is alleged to be having a robust nexus with ganja cultivators from these states. She has modified her modus operandi after police began ‘Operation Dhoolpet’.
Neetu Bai, having over 300 peddlers and suppliers working below her, is alleged to have the strongest community in metropolis. She additionally has a robust community of shoppers who need doorstep supply, largely from IT fields, police mentioned, including Neetu Bai has property price crores of rupees in posh localities within the metropolis.
She was arrested by TGANB and Golconda police in August 2023. Police discovered that she had a financial institution steadiness of over Rs 180 crore and immovable properties of over Rs 4.80 crore that have been seized by the police. However later launched on bail and continued her exercise.
