One held, 1920 kg Ganja seized in Srirampur

Staff Reporter, Gossaigaon, July 27: In a major breakthrough by Simultapu Police around 1920 kg of ganja have been successfully seized from Inter-state border in Srirampur NH-31 (C) under Kokrajhar district on Tuesday evening and nabbed the handyman of the truck. Police sources disclosed that one receiving input about the illegal smuggling of ganza a naka chaki was installed at Srirampur and after checking a truck bearing registration number UP15-DT-2264 have been intercepted. Later, the truck was brought to Simultapu police outpost and after thoroughly checking up huge quantities of ganza soaped into 131 packets weighing around 1920 kg have been found which was kept in a secret chamber of the truck to fool the police. On receiving the information about the consignment seized by Simultapu police Kokrajhar District Superintendent of Police Prateek Thube Vijay Kumar along with Nabanita Sharma, SDPO Gossaigaon reached the spot to take the stock of the seized ganza. Notably, taking advantage of the situation the driver of the truck somehow managed to escape from the spot but the handiman of the truck Mohd. Faruk Hussain of Imphal has been arrested by the police. It is assumed that the value of the seized ganza would be above 4 crore in the open market. Police started an investigation into this case to find out more information.