Was smuggling illegal ganja, smuggler arrested

Katni. Consignments of ganja from Orissa are continuously reaching the district. A few days ago, the Indore Narcotics team had seized 13 quintals of ganja in Barwara, which was brought from Orissa, and a day later, a woman accused was arrested by the Kotwali police and a large quantity of ganja was also found from her. Once again the Kotwali police has caught a youth resident of Orissa with ganja near the station. The police is interrogating the accused as to whom he had come to Katni to sell ganja to. Kotwali police station in-charge Ashish Sharma said that on Sunday, information was received from the informer that a person was standing on the overbridge near Mudwara station and had drugs in a bag, which he had come to sell to someone. On the instructions of senior officers, Kotwali police station in-charge formed a team and raided the spot.

Where a person of the description described by the informer was seen carrying a bag in his hand. Seeing the police, the young man got scared and started going towards the over bridge. When the police stopped and interrogated him, he told his name to be Kansari Meher, father Biranchi Meher, 46 years old, resident of village Palas police station Junagadh district Kalahandi Orissa. When the police searched the youth’s bag, they found two packets in it. In which ganja was kept. When the police got him weighed, 11 kg 546 grams of ganja was found. The police seized it and arrested the accused and took action under the NDPS Act. She is also interrogating the accused as to whom he had come to the city to sell ganja to. The team that arrested the accused included police station in-charge Kotwali along with SI Ramchandra Shukla, ASI Vijay Shankar Giri, constables Ajay Pratap Singh, Upendra Singh, Amit Singh, Palash Dubey, Mansoor Hussain, Mohan Mandloi, Dinesh Sen.