Police launch campaign to weed out ganja menace
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The Visakhapatnam City Police have launched into a campaign to weed out the ganja menace, by reserving 9 instances and arresting 26 individuals for smoking the contraband in simply the previous week. Of the 9 instances, 4 alone have been booked on Friday.
Four individuals have been arrested on Friday in MVP Colony. Among the 26 individuals who have been arrested, 12 are beneath 25 years of age and eight are aged beneath 20, police mentioned, including that they need to ship out a message that smoking ganja would appeal to extreme penalties underneath the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act.
Cases have been registered at MVP police station, One Town police station, Two Town, Arilova, Three Town and Airport police station.
Police mentioned that the raids would proceed and strict motion could be taken even in opposition to those that are discovered accompanying the ganja people who smoke. Police additionally appealed to the dad and mom to maintain a watch on the actions of their youngsters.
Hash oil
In one other case, town police on Friday arrested a 32-year-old man for allegedly possessing two litres of hash oil price ₹4 lakh close to Marripalem space underneath Airport police station limits.
According to the police, on Thursday night time, appearing on a tip-off, Inspector of Airport police station Ch. Umakanth together with officers from City Task Force (CTF), carried out a raid close to Marripalem and located S. Chandra Mohan (32) of G. Madugula, who was transferring with two litres of hash oil.
Police mentioned that the accused was coming to town from G. Madugula with the banned hash oil. Mr. Umakanth added that Chandra Mohan was solely appearing as a courier and was supposed to ship it to somebody within the metropolis. Further investigation is on to verify the id of the receiver, police mentioned.
In one other case booked underneath NDPS, the Duvvada police arrested six individuals who have been allegedly attempting to transport 107 kg of ganja in a non-public journey bus close to Duvvada, right here on Thursday night time.
The accused have been recognized as Ashorba Gaikwad (29), and Nagnath Ashorba Gaikwad (29), each from Parbhani, Maharastra, Dharmendra Kumar (24) from Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh, Sushil Parameshwar Kasabe (30) and Varsha Vithoba Kasabe (32) each from Maharashtra and Anil Sunani (23) from Sambalpur, Odisha.
Police mentioned that every one the accused work as labourers in Maharashtra. In order to earn straightforward cash, they’d conspired to smuggle and promote ganja for heavy earnings. The smugglers had procured the ganja for ₹700 per kg from Sileru in Visakha Agency and have been attempting to shift it to Mumbai. Though the seized ganja is price round ₹2 lakh within the Agency space, it’s anticipated to fetch round ₹10 lakh in States like Maharashtra, police mentioned.
Based on credible info, a workforce led by Duvvada Inspector Lakshmi intercepted a non-public journey bus close to Kurmannapalem junction and seized the contraband from the bags maintain. Noticing the police, the six accused tried to escape from the spot however have been caught. Police discovered the ganja stuffed in 17 baggage.
Police mentioned that since January 20, about 177 kg of ganja was seized at varied locations underneath three totally different police stations within the metropolis.
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