₹230 crore worth of contraband seized in Odisha
Acting on reliable intelligence, a special team was constituted under the direction of the DIG (Southern Range) and led by the Superintendent of Police, Koraput.
Acting on reliable intelligence, a special team was constituted under the direction of the DIG (Southern Range) and led by the Superintendent of Police, Koraput.
A few days ago, the EAGLE task force dismantled a highly sophisticated drug trafficking network run by a hotel entrepreneur who owned a restaurant, Malnadu Kitchen.
An FIR has been registered against Samajwadi Party MP Afzal Ansari at the city police station for asking the government to legalise ganja.
Sleuths of the Special Operations Team, Malkajgiri Zone along with Keesara police apprehended three persons for allegedly transporting 430kg of Ganja from Odisha to Hyderabad on Thursday, officials said.
On sustained interrogation, accused Saraswati disclosed that she used to supply ganja in small packets to unknown persons in various parts of Delhi.
The accused Mahendra Behera was arrested near P.N.High school in Jatani on the outskirts of the city with the contraband.
The police also succeeded in tracing 66 bighas under illicit cultivation with 15 lakh poppy plants in a remote Tikken sub-tehsil in the Chauhar Valley of Mandi district.
The Police have also been conducting investigation about the source and destination of these consignments along with financial investigation so that the properties of the key accused may get attached and confiscated.
The police said that the Kalabaurgi which shares borders with Telangana and Maharashtra makes it ideal choice for drug smugglers to hide and transport from here.
Giving this information on Monday, a spokesperson of Haryana Police said that the arrested accused was identified as Surjit alias Jeetu, a resident of Hisar.
