CASH SEIZED FROM GANJA PEDDLER’S HOUSE IN CUTTACK
Bureau,Odishabarta
Bhubaneswar: Commissionerate Police has seized Rs 75.20 lakh cash and gold ornaments during a raid at the house of a ganja peddler in Cuttack. After receiving information, a joint team of the special squad and Badambadi police conducted a raid near Link Road in Cuttack on Friday and recovered 20 kg ganja from the possession of Narayan Pati and his associate Abakash Swain, Cuttack DCP Prateek Singh said. Both the accused have been arrested, he added.
The police searched the house Narayan Pati and recovered Rs 75.20 lakh cash and gold ornaments weighing about 80 grams. During investigation, Pati confessed that the recovered cash in the sale proceeds of marijuana. The DCP said Pati was under the scanner of his team since he was involved in illegal narcotics trade over the past several years.
Though Pati was arrested five-six times in the past, he managed to secure bail in each case as he was arrested with small quantity of ganja, Singh said. But this time, Pati has been nabbed with 20 kg of ganja, for which there is stringent punishment provision under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, the DCP said.
Singh said he will inform Enforcement Directorate and Income Tax department as a huge amount of cash has been recovered in this case.
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