Bengaluru : The ongoing drug racket involving Kannada film industry, Police teams accompanied by the dog squad on Wednesday conducted surprise checks at bus stands and other transit points in and around the city after they received Intelligence reports of peddlers bringing drugs into the city via buses.

Search operations were carried out at Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) and private bus stands, while several teams also conducted searches at checkpoints across the city.

Last week, the CCB arrested three people who were caught red-handed smuggling 204 kg of marijuana worth ₹1 crore into Bengaluru from Andhra Pradesh in a truck. According to the police, the accused provided details about their clients and local peddlers in their confession. “Soon after this, the peddlers changed their plans and started using public transport to send drugs into the city,” a senior police officer said.

Earlier in the day, Sandeep Patil, Joint Commissioner of Police, tweeted about the city police’s crackdown. “Since we have information on drugs being supplied into the city via buses, extensive checks have been conducted,” he said.

Director-General and Inspector-General of Police Praveen Sood had said that the investigations into the drug menace have so far revealed that the contraband was coming into the city from Andhra Pradesh and Goa.

The CCB is also in touch with the Narcotics Control Bureau, which had cracked a major drug racket with alleged links to actors and others in the Kannada film industry. The NCB also busted another international racket where smugglers were allegedly sending consignments of illegal drugs from Delhi and Mumbai by air to their clients in the U.S. and Canada. The NCB is following the trail to Goa where a cab driver had ordered marijuana online.