Kishore Kumar Panigrahi, the SP of the Odisha STF, informed that in a raid against illegal storage and selling of narcotic drugs, more than 161 kg of Ganja and other incriminating evidence was discovered and seized from the accused.
The Government Railway Police (GRP) and Railway Protection Force (RPF) in a joint operation seized 5 kg of contraband drugs from a train and apprehended two persons at Lumding railway station in Assam's Nagaon district on Sunday night, police said on Monday.
The duo - Bijay Kumar Pani (50) and his son Satrujit Pani (23)- was arrested by the Odisha Police's Special Task Force (STF) on May 3 and six quintals of ganja along with Rs 60 lakh in cash recovered from their possession, according to Puri Superintendent of Police K Vishal Singh had told re
"During the raid two accused with ganja of more than 106 kg, one car and other
incriminating materials were recovered and seized from their possession," said J. N. Pankaj IG STF in a press statement.
According to the BSF, the events unfolded when the jawans of Border Outpost Ramchandrapur from the 107 Battalion under the South Bengal Frontier received information from reliable information about a large quantity of Ganja being stored in an abandoned house in Bira village, near the border.