According to the police, the accused, Mohd Javeed, 51, used to purchase Ganja from Vinod Singh, 45, for Rs 150 per one sachet and sell the same to needy customers at a higher price of Rs. 200 to 300 per sachet. The sachet weight is about 10 grammes.
During the raid, the police successfully attached narcotic substances Ganja worth Rs 50,000 and Charas worth Rs 50,000 from the possession of the accused person and also attached a motorcycle, the police said.
Additional SP Rajendra disclosed crucial details about the operation. He revealed that all five suspects hail from Hyderabad and had arranged for two vehicles to transport the ganja from Narsipatnam to Karnataka.
In a joint operation, BSF troops of Tripura Frontier along with NCB, Tripura State Rifles, Tripura Police and Excise department destroyed around 31,500 immature Ganja plants in the villages of Gajeria and Ganiyamara in West Tripura district.
The Border Security Force (BSF), in a joint operation with the police, destroyed approximately Rs 40,000 worth of cannabis plants illegally cultivated in Manikyanagar village in Tripura's Sepahijala district on Friday.
Mumbai Crime Branch has arrested two persons including an intestate drug kingpin and his aide from Odisha in connection to a ganja seizure case, officials said on Wednesday.
Dinesh Kumar Yadav, Inspector General of BSF Guwahati Frontier on Thursday said that this year till November 30, BSF Guwahati Frontier has seized 5695 cattle heads, 2804 kg of ganja, 40202 Yaba tablets.
Sparking controversy by calling Mahadev (Lord Shiva) the "God of Bhang" (cannabis), Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) MP Bikashranjan Bhattacharyya on Saturday said, "Due to such belief, how many people's families have been destroyed?"
Tamil Nadu police have arrested eight people and seized 300 kg of ganja in Nagapattinam district which was meant to be transported to Sri Lanka via maritime route, police said on Thursday.