JAIPUR: City police on Saturday arrested four people with 27kg of marijuana from Gandhi Nagar railway station, Bajaj Nagar and Malviya Nagar.
They were supplying the banned substance from West Bengal to Rajasthan. The accused used long distance trains to transport marijuana.
The accused were identified as Lal Miyan, 34, Sukumar Sarkar, 40, Devgan Burman, 34 and Santosh Das, 40. While the former two were couriers and arrested from outside Gandhi Nagar railway station, the other two were receivers of the narcotics, arrested from Malviya Nagar and Bajaj Nagar. All are natives of West Bengal who had been staying in Jaipur for close to two decades.
“The accused had been in this profession for more than ten years and had set up base in posh colonies of Jaipur to avoid detection. Burman and Das are the main accused who asked the locals from their villages to get marijuana from Bengal to Jaipur. They would keep in touch with couriers constantly who would get off the trains by either pulling the chain or at railway crossings to avoid getting caught at the stations,” a police official said. Police also recovered Rs 18,000 from the accused as well as a two-wheeler. Since Operation Clean Sweep began in October last year, 274 cases have been registered and 342 accused arrested.
They were supplying the banned substance from West Bengal to Rajasthan. The accused used long distance trains to transport marijuana.
The accused were identified as Lal Miyan, 34, Sukumar Sarkar, 40, Devgan Burman, 34 and Santosh Das, 40. While the former two were couriers and arrested from outside Gandhi Nagar railway station, the other two were receivers of the narcotics, arrested from Malviya Nagar and Bajaj Nagar. All are natives of West Bengal who had been staying in Jaipur for close to two decades.
“The accused had been in this profession for more than ten years and had set up base in posh colonies of Jaipur to avoid detection. Burman and Das are the main accused who asked the locals from their villages to get marijuana from Bengal to Jaipur. They would keep in touch with couriers constantly who would get off the trains by either pulling the chain or at railway crossings to avoid getting caught at the stations,” a police official said. Police also recovered Rs 18,000 from the accused as well as a two-wheeler. Since Operation Clean Sweep began in October last year, 274 cases have been registered and 342 accused arrested.
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