175 kg Ganja Seized

Uttam Nayak,Odishabarta

KORAPUT: On the orders of Koraput Excise Superintendent Manoj Kumar Sethi, the Koraput Excise Department raided and seized 175 Kgs of ganja after receiving information from a source that there was ganja in Jabagad hill under Machkunda police station.

The value of the seized cannabis is estimated at Rs 725,000.  But the accused is back.  The ganja was seized by the Excise department in the district several times, but the accused are still returning.  The Department of Corrections has failed to apprehend the accused.  Koraput Excise Inspector Pramod Kumar Banua,  Inspector Dilip Kumar Rath, ASI Aropalak Das, Pratima Behera and Sanjay Pradhan, Constables Trilochan Rauchetti, Prashant Nayak, Sabita Pujari, R. Venket Kumar, Ram Ghaidjokha and Nandapur S.D.  The packet was later weighed in the presence of Magistrate Tapan Nayak