B’LURU POLICE BUST DRUG RACKET,COP SUSPECT ODISHA LINK (?).

Bureau,Odishabarta

BHUBANESWAR: Following the seizure of about 13.5 quintals of ganja from a vegetable truck in Bengaluru on Thursday, the Bengaluru police said the consignment is most likely transported from Odisha (?).

Speaking to scribe Bengaluru  police commissioner, Kamal Pant said while the police were checking a vegetable truck after it arrived from Gulbarga in the morning, they found 46 packets of ganja weighing about 13.5 quintals. The police seized the narcotics and arrested six persons in connection.

The preliminary investigation has revealed that the illegal ganja trade in Bengaluru is most likely linked to Odisha what we suspect.According to source a case has been registered in Seshadripuram police station, the police have begun an investigation to trace the racket involved in the illegal ganja trafficking.

The pit was filled with the ganja packets and covered with a wooden plank which was then covered with a thick layer of mud (!),The alleged drug smugglers had dug a huge pit (like a silo) in a sheep-rearing farm situated at Kamalapur Taluk in Kalaburagi district which was located nearly 750 km from Bengaluru in the upper-most northern part of Karnataka.

Bengaluru City Police Commissioner Kamal Pant said this was the biggest such seizure in the history of Bengaluru Police.

“A day-to-day investigation led to a small clue of an accused selling ganja within Seshadripuram Police station limit, where the police had seized two kg of ganja from the accused. But detailed investigations threw light on how the ganja trade was flourishing as far as Odisha to Bengaluru,” the Police Commissioner explained.

“These accused used to store it in a pit in a sheep-rearing farm, as nobody could suspect that any such activity was happening in such a remote area. The packets were systematically packed and stacked in this pit,”

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