Mahasamund. Police in the district have arrested a youth from Madhya Pradesh for smuggling ganja. Police have seized illegal drugs worth Rs 10 lakh from the smuggler. The matter is of Basna police station area
According to the information received, on Sunday Basna police had received information from an informer that there was a possibility of a person carrying ganja on a bike from Odisha side towards Basna. On this, the police team laid siege near the city ground and stopped the bike. After this, when the bike rider was interrogated, he revealed his name as 19-year-old Nandlal Rathore, resident of Madhya Pradesh. 20 kg 100 grams of illegal drug ganja was seized from the young man inside a white plastic sack in the back seat of the bike, whose value is said to be Rs 10,00,000. After this the police arrested the young man. Besides, the bike used in the incident was also seized from the smuggler’s possession.
