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Officials
seized contrabands from trucks plying with national permit
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New Delhi(Agencies): The
Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) said on Sunday it has arrested twelve people
with over 1,655 kg of cannabis in Bihar and Jharkhand, as the agency could bust
two ganja trafficking networks, which worked on a pan India basis.
The officials in the anti-drug
agency said, based on the intelligence input NCB personnel seized contrabands
from trucks plying with national permit and a few other vehicles, and in one
instance, cannabis was concealed inside peanut bags.
Giving details of the seizure
and arrest operations a senior NCB official said, “As the actionable
intelligence was available, the officials of the Patna zonal unit seized the
cache on July 15-16 in the two states.” It was informed that a large quantity
of ganja (cannabis) being transported from the Andhra Pradesh-Odisha border to
Bihar and Jharkhand, he added.
“With these operations we could manage to bust
two ganja trafficking networks working on a pan-India basis,” the official
said, adding that a total of 1,655 kg of cannabis was seized the NCB in Bihar
and Jharkhand last week and 12 people were arrested.
The busting of this drug
network, operating out of Odisha, will prove to be a major achievement in
combating the menace of cannabis smuggling in not only this region but will be
a blow to such syndicates operating in other parts of the country, the official
said.
The officials in the NCB said,
their investigation into these cases of cannabis seizures has revealed a
similarity between what is happening in Jammu & Kashmir and in
Naxal-affected areas of Jharkhand, Bihar, Odisha and Andhra Pradesh. “In
Kashmir terrorists are using drug money to fund their activities, here in these
areas the proceeds of cannabis trade are possibly going into anti-state
activities by the Left extremist groups,” said another official.
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