Police kept strict vigil, huge quantity of ganja seized

Raigarh: There is a tight police arrangement in the entire district regarding the upcoming assembly elections 2023. On the direction of Collector Karthikeya Goyal and Senior Superintendent of Police Sadanand Kumar, police and static teams (SST Team) are monitoring all the major check posts of the district to stop the movement of narcotics and suspicious material from other states. On the instructions of SSP Sadanand Kumar, all the gazetted officers and police station in-charges are activating informers and keeping an eye on the internal routes.

In the same sequence, in the morning, Lailunga police station in-charge Inspector Mohan Bhardwaj got information from his appointed informer that a person named Puran Chand Choubey, living in village Lakha, had gone to Orissa to collect ganja and was going to come to Lailunga via Kilkila/Hadipani. Taking the information seriously, police station in-charge Lailunga, after informing the senior officers about the informer’s information, formed separate teams for the Ganja raid and sent them to lay siege on Kilkila, Hadipani and Kotba road. Besides, TI Lailunga himself along with his staff was keeping an eye on the main road. Early in the morning, a team of Lailunga police laid siege in front of village Hadipani school and caught a person walking on foot holding a plastic bag. On being interrogated, he revealed his name as Puran Chand Choubey resident of Lakha, who had 11 packets inside the plastic bag. A packet of one kg each, containing intoxicating substance Ganja, totaling 11 kg, worth ₹ 1,32,000 was found. Accused Puranchand Choubey, father of Premhans Choubey, age 43 years, resident of Lakha police station, Kotwali Raigarh, who was illegally transporting ganja, was said to be transporting the illegal ganja from Orissa to Raigarh via Lailunga for sale. On the actions of the accused, action has been taken under Section 20B NDPS Act in Lailunga police station and the accused has been sent on judicial remand.