Police have arrested three men and recovered more than 93 kilograms of ganja.
New Delhi:
Police have arrested three men and recovered more than 93 kilograms of ganja worth more than Rs 5.5 crore from them in the international market, officials said Monday.
The suspects have been identified as Sanjay Kumar (38) and Mohammad Israel (52), both residents of New Usmanpur, and Ram Prasad (49), a resident of Okhla Industrial Area in the national capital, they said.
On Sunday, police received information that an auto rickshaw carrying a huge amount of ganja would deliver the contraband here at Malviya Nagar, a senior police officer said.
A trap was set and the suspects were detained along with the contraband, South Deputy Police Commissioner Atul Kumar Thakur said.
Police searched the auto rickshaw and 45 packages containing a total of 93,582 kilograms of ganja were recovered, they said.
During the interrogation, the accused revealed that they had bought the contraband from Odisha. It was transported from the remote forest in Odisha to Delhi, police said.
After obtaining the drug, the suspect kept it in a rented place near Transport Nagar in Delhi. They then delivered the contraband as ordered in an auto rickshaw, police said.
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