Hyderabad: With more than 20 NDPS cases against her, average daily earnings of Rs 2.60 lakh, owner of real estate worth crores, Dhulpet-based gangster Neetu Bai tops the wanted list of TG Excise police.
Special teams of TG-STF have laid a net to nab Neetu Bai alias Ganja Neetu alias Ganja Bai alias Ganja Kalawati, a close relative of recently arrested lady don Anguri Bai.
45-year-old Neetu Bai entered the ganja business as her family business. She is married to Munnu Singh and has two sons. There are more than a dozen note counting machines in Neetu’s house. He is an importer and supplier of bulk marijuana not only in the Twin Cities but throughout the state, police said.
Neetu, popularly known as Kalavati in Visakhapatnam, Odisha, Jharkhand, MP, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh and UP, is said to have strong links with ganja growers in these states. After the police started ‘Operation Dhulpet’, she has changed her modus operandi. Our special team will find him soon, he said.
Neetu Bai, with over 300 traders and suppliers working under her, is said to have the strongest network in the Twin Cities.
He also has a strong network of consumers who want doorstep delivery, mostly from IT sectors, police said, adding that Neetu Bai owns properties worth crores of rupees in posh localities of the twin cities.
He was arrested by the TGANB and Golconda Police in August 2023. The police found that he had a bank balance of over 180 crores and immovable assets of over 4.80 crores which were seized by the police.
He did not give up his illegal business after his release until March this year when the TGANB arrested him with 13 clients and more than 2.3 million in contraband.
She was released in 2022. We have installed CCTV cameras in identified areas, developed a strong network after forming the SIT. He is under constant surveillance, a senior customs official said Deccan Chronicle.
During interrogation, Anguri Bai and others revealed the name of Neetu, who lives in Dhulpet and operates in both Dhulpet and Nankaramguda.
Anguribai and her 150 workers were arrested during ‘Operation Dhulpet’ by the State Excise Department.
During the investigation, it was found that the full name of 45-year-old Neetu Bai, known as Ganga Neetu Bai, whose house is in Lodha Basti Nankaramguda, is Kalawati Neetu Bai.