Ganja valued at around Rs two crore was seized and two persons were arrested in connection with it in Odisha's Kalahandi district today, police said.
Acting on a tip off, police detained a truck near Mading on Bhawanipatna-Raipur Highway and recovered around 39 quintals of ganja from the vehicle, said sub-divisional police officer Biranchi Dehuri.
The contraband was packed in polythene bags and kept with sacks of ginger, he said adding the ganja is valued at around Rs 2 crore, he said.
The police arrested the driver and helper of the truck which bore the registration number of Uttar Pradesh.
Preliminary investigation showed the ganja was loaded near Similiguda of Koraput district and the truck was on way to Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh, the SDPO added.
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