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Seventy-five kg of suspected ganja has been seized by the constabulary successful Ernakulam territory successful 2 days successful 2 abstracted incidents, the constabulary said connected Wednesday. Of this, 56 kg of the alleged contraband was seized by a associated squad of the Railway Protection Force, Crime Prevention and Detection Squad and Government Railway Police astatine the Ernakulam Junction (South) railway presumption connected Wednesday.
Three radical were arrested aft the substance was seized from onboard Tatanagar-Ernakulam Express. The arrested are Sukulal Tudu of West Bengal, a bedroll unit connected the train, Deepak of Palakkad and Saroop of Vyttila successful Kochi, the constabulary said.
The seized point is valued astatine ₹28 lakh. The contraband was concealed successful the cupboards of the bid by Mr. Tudu, the constabulary said. The different accused had reportedly travel to cod the substance.
The 3 accused, slapped with sections nether the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, were remanded successful judicial custody.
In different incident, 3 men from West Bengal’s Murshidabad were nabbed with 19 kg of suspected ganja by the Puthencruz constabulary and the anti-narcotic squad of the Ernakulam Rural constabulary connected Tuesday. The arrested are Rahul Sirkar, 26, Muhammed Kaif, 21, and Rajamandal, 45.
The suspected ganja was trafficked from Murshidabad by train. The accused were taken into custody by the constabulary erstwhile they were waiting to drawback a autobus astatine Mattappilly adjacent Pankode. The constabulary said the accused had procured the substance for ₹3,000 per kg from West Bengal and were readying to merchantability it for ₹30,000-₹ 35,000 a kg.
