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The Government Railway Police (GRP) has seized a consignment of 21 kg of ganja successful Tirupathi - Chikkamagaluru Express bid astatine Katpadi railway presumption successful Vellore connected Saturday.
Police said that arsenic portion of information measures, a squad of GRP constabulary unit was conducting astonishment checks successful trains astatine the railway station.
The squad searched the coaches of the explicit bid erstwhile they recovered the fishy and passenger, Mohammed Aseem, a autochthonal of Kerala, with a tourer container successful the wide compartment of the train. When constabulary checked the bag, they recovered 7 bundles of ganja successful them.
Initial enquiry revealed that the fishy Aseem had bought ganja from cause peddlers successful Andhra Pradesh to merchantability successful retail to individuals and workers astatine cardinal towns and concern centres successful the State. A lawsuit has been registered by Katpadi GRP. Arrested idiosyncratic was lodged astatine Central Prison successful Vellore. A probe is nether way.
