Varanasi: Over 16 quintal ganja and Rs 3 lakhs were recovered from a smuggler during a raid by Pavai police in Azamgarh on Saturday. The ganja consignment had been procured from Odisha.
SP Azamgarh Sudhir Kumar Singh said that Pavai cops were on patrolling on under construction Lucknow-Ballia highway when they noticed a person sitting at a lonely place near Sultanpur village. When the cops approached him, he tried to escape. However, the cops foiled his bid and caught him with a country made revolver and live cartridges.
The arrested person was identified as Rajman Yadav of Ambedkarnagar district. He confessed that he was waiting for the buyers with whom he had finalized a deal of selling 16.45 quintals of ganja after procuring from Odisha, police said said adding, on Yadav’s tip off the cops recovered ganja packed in 47 bags and cash Rs 3 lakhs.