Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Rs 3.5 lakh worth ganja seized, 9 held in Kalahandi

The Pioneer, Jan 5, 2010
PNS | Bhawanipatna

Around Rs 3.5 lakh worth of ganja was seized and nine people including two women were arrested in the district on Friday. On the direction of district Collector RS Gopalan, a team of the Excise Department and police officials conducted the raid.

Sources said Excise Inspector Ashok Kumar Tripathy and SIs of Junagarh, Dharmagarh, Kesinga, Rampur, Golamunda and Bhawanipatna jointly raided the house of ganja peddlers early in the morning and seized about 61.100 kg ganja at Dumerguda under Golamunda police station and 450 grams of contraband at few localities of the town.

An officer said that under section 20 (B) of Narcotic Drugs Prevention Suspicion Act case no 84/09-10 have been registered against the arrested persons. Five persons were arrested from Dumerguda, four were arrested from the town. Meanwhile, two persons managed to flee during the raids.

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