Two held in Ahmedabad with 32kg of ganja

AHMEDABAD: City crime branch sleuths on Monday held two men with 32kg of ganja worth Rs 10 lakh in their autorickshaw, from near Rangolinagar next to the Vatva overbridge.
The accused were identified as the rickshaw driver, Shabbir Hussain Ansari, 39, a resident of Vora na Roza in Gomtipur and Aftab Ansari, 32, also a resident of Gomtipur.
A crime branch release states that police inspector J N Chavda got an input that two persons were carrying a stock of ganja in their autorickshaw. Cops kept watch in the area and flagged down the autorickshaw.
Five packets of ganja were concealed under the driver’s seat, three behind the passengers’ seat and seven around the engine. Police officials said that Shabbir Hussain and Aftab had gone to Surat on the night of July 19 and got the ganja from a person in the Kim area of Surat city.
Police booked the two under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act and began an investigation.