Ganja worth lakhs seized from Mahindra XUV, two smugglers arrested

Balrampur. Two accused, who smuggled ganja in a luxury car from the neighboring state Madhya Pradesh, have been arrested. Mahindra

To completely curb the illegal transportation of narcotics in the district, all police station in-charges have been directed to do intensive checking of vehicles by setting up checking points in their respective areas and to continuously block the state border area. In this series, during the vehicle checking at Village Tugwan Barrier Naka in Chhattisgarh-Madhya Pradesh Border at around 11.30 pm on the intervening night of 11th October, the driver of Mahindra Suddenly he turned the vehicle back and started running away at high speed.

Balangi outpost in-charge Uni KP Singh, seeing the suspicious vehicle running at a high speed, cordoned off the main roads and chased the vehicle. Seeing the siege, the driver of the suspicious vehicle started driving away from the main road through rural road towards village Navatola. During this time, when the car met with an accident, the accused fled into the forest, leaving it there. Balangi outpost in-charge took possession of the vehicle and chased the suspects. The suspects were caught around 5 am on October 12 with the help of the villagers after laying siege around the forest till late night.