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Drug trafficking: Ganja worth Rs 2 crore seized in Jharkhand, heroin worth Rs 1.5 crore seized from Assam

Last Updated on 24/07/2024 by wccexam Desk

Police of many states of the country are running a campaign against illegal drug dealers. In such a situation, the police have seized a large consignment of ganja in Ramgarh district of Jharkhand. One person has been arrested in this case. On the other hand, in Morigaon district of Assam, the police have arrested two people and recovered heroin worth more than 1.5 crores from their possession.

This is how ganja worth two crores was caught
490 kg of ganja worth about Rs 2 crore has been seized from a truck in Jharkhand’s Ramgarh district. The police have arrested the driver of the truck. Giving information about this, the district Superintendent of Police (SP) Ajay Kumar told PTI that the suspicious truck with Uttar Pradesh registration number was going from Ranchi to Hazaribagh late on Tuesday night.

According to the SP, the truck was stopped for investigation near Kuju police post. He said that after searching the truck, the police recovered a huge amount of drugs and arrested the truck driver Tulsi Yadav (55). The SP said that further investigation is going on in this case. The accused truck driver is being questioned.

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Heroin worth Rs 1.57 crore seized
Two people were arrested in Assam’s Morigaon district on Wednesday and heroin worth more than Rs 1.57 crore was seized from them. Based on a tip-off, a police team conducted a search operation in Barchal village and seized 875 grams of the drug from a house, a police official of the district said.

Police said the heroin was hidden in 77 soap boxes and was brought to the district from Dimapur in Nagaland. Police have arrested both the accused and registered a case against them.