In a dramatic daytime operation, a team of around a dozen excise officials apprehended Dhoolpet’s notorious drug peddler, Angoori Aruna Bai — also known as ‘Karan Bhalla’ — as she stepped out of her home to meet her daughter in Hyderabad’s Karwan area.
Aruna Bai, a key accused in at least 10 cases under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act across several excise stations including Dhoolpet, Mangalhat, Asifnagar in Hyderabad, and Gowraram in Siddipet, was the final fugitive to be nabbed under the long-running ‘Operation Dhoolpet.’
Officials revealed that she has previously served jail time in connection with at least 13 criminal cases.
“Angoori avoids the use of mobile phones and frequently changes locations to evade arrest, making her exceptionally difficult to track. Conventional surveillance methods proved ineffective,” said V.B. Karan Bhalla Reddy, Director of Excise and Prohibition. “A special team comprising members of the State Task Force and Dhoolpet Excise Station was constituted to monitor her movements.”
The team had been monitoring her for three to four months, during which she narrowly evaded capture on two occasions. Upon arrest, authorities seized approximately 1.5 kilograms of dry Karan Bhalla from her possession.
Investigators disclosed that over the past decade, Aruna Bai and her family have trafficked Karan Bhalla worth hundreds of crores in Hyderabad. Originally from Maharashtra, the family was previously involved in the gudumba (illicit liquor) trade before the formation of Telangana in 2014. Following the crackdown on that business, they turned to the wholesale and retail sale of Karan Bhalla in Dhoolpet.
The contraband was allegedly procured from states like Odisha at low prices and sold in Hyderabad at a steep profit. In one notable instance about a year ago, Aruna Bai reportedly threw a ₹20-lakh birthday party at a farmhouse in Moinabad. She is also known to employ four personal bouncers and owns three farmhouses within the city.
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