Imagine a ganja cultivation centre in your residential complex, with lines of planted pots under lights, growing ganja. Seems like a scene out of a crime TV series, doesn't it?
Well, in Hyderabad, this was what police officers walked into, at a flat in the city.
A 33-year-old man was arrested on Monday by the Hyderabad police after he was found cultivating ganja in his flat in Manikonda.
According to a press release, Syed Shahed Husain had learnt the technique of cultivating the plant indoors from online platforms and on the advice of a Facebook friend. He was using two bedrooms to grow weed in his three bedroom-hall-kitchen flat.
The police raided his home to find 40 potted plants that were kept under ultraviolet LED lights in one of the rooms. The police seized 8.6 kgs of weed from him.
The police said that Hussain, a former bank employee, had been doing this for three months.
Besides the lights to produce artificial heat, an air conditioner, and a fixed table fan to regulate temperature, Hussain also used phosphorous and potassium as nutrients. He used cocofibre pith, flora pellet, Aquasol, Aquadene and cay stones as a germinating medium.
Here is what the police have seized from the accused:
- 40 pots containing ganja plants
- One weighing machine
- Three LED Lights
- One table fan
- Five Flora pellet (100grams)
- One Neem oil (250 Ml)
- One Pushpa floor powder (250 Ml)
- One Aqua sol (500 Ml),
- One Aquadene (200 Ml),
- Prosperous about 100 Grams
- Potassium about 100 Grams
- Clay stones about 1 Kg
The ill-fated marijuana enthusiast was caught while trying to sell the plant on Monday, following which police checked his flat.
(Source: The News Minute)
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