Nagpur: A squad of Gittikhadan police ended up recovering 28kg ganja, worth over Rs4.20 lakh, from a car in Hazaripahad shortly after midnight of Sunday after it inspected the vehicle on suspicion of transporting weapons.
The consignment had come from Odisha and was supposed to be taken to Bihar and Jharkhand via city, where the racketeers were supposed to make some deliveries.
The squad, led by sub-inspector Datta Pendkar under senior inspector Sunil Chavan, has arrested Feroze Ansari and his accomplice Shubham Karluke. Ansari, earlier engaged in bootlegging, had turned to driving but it was the lockdown crisis which compelled him to take up drug peddling.
The crops grew suspicious on seeing Ansari’s vehicle with Jharkhand registration number plate parked in criminally-sensitive Hazaripahad locality. Initially, Ansari tried to mislead the cops. However, on inspecting the vehicle, two sacks of ganja were found in the dickey of the car.
An offence was registered against the two at Gittikhadan police station. Further investigation is being done under the supervision of Zonal DCP Vinita S.