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Two persons, including a juvenile, were apprehended by the Government Railway Police (GRP) and Railway Protection Force (RPF) for allegedly transporting 17.909 kg of ganja worthy ₹8.95 lakh from Odisha to Gujarat via Secunderabad Railway Station connected Friday (May 8).
The arrested persons were identified arsenic Deepak Swain, 24, a labourer residing successful Navapura successful Surat and primitively from Kodala colony successful Odisha’s Ganjam district, and a 16-year-old lad from Odisha. Another accused, Rajesh Kumar, 25, of Kodala village, is absconding.
According to the police, the accused were allegedly portion of an interstate smuggling web transporting ganja from the Phulbani wood country successful Odisha to Surat successful Gujarat. A lawsuit was registered nether Sections 8(c) work with 20(b)(ii)(B) of the NDPS Act and Section 78 of the Juvenile Justice Act.
Investigators said Deepak and the juvenile, who are presently residing successful Surat with their families, had precocious visited their autochthonal colony successful Odisha, wherever Rajesh Kumar allegedly offered them ₹7,000 for each ganja packet transported to Surat.
Acting connected Rajesh Kumar’s instructions, the duo went to the Phulbani wood country aboriginal connected Wednesday, May 7, wherever they allegedly collected 9 ganja packets successful 2 trolley suitcases.
Deepak was carrying 1 suitcase containing 5 packets, portion the juvenile was carrying different with 4 packets. The duo past boarded the Visakha Express and travelled to Secunderabad, from wherever they planned to proceed their travel to Surat.
On reaching Secunderabad, they waited astatine the wide waiting hallway aft learning that the connecting bid to Surat was scheduled aboriginal successful the night. During a astonishment checking cognition conducted jointly by the GRP and RPF astatine astir 7.20 a.m. connected Friday, constabulary intercepted the duo and seized the contraband.
Police said efforts are connected to hint and apprehend the absconding accused.
