48kg ganja seized in a day, four held

RAJKOT: A total of 48kg ganja worth Rs 5 lakh was seized in two separate cases lodged with Bhaktinagar police and the Rajkot special operations group (SOG) on Friday.
Bhaktinagar police arrested two persons with 20kg of marijuana near Kothariya crossroads. The accused, Balvir Ahirval (19) and Mahesh Babariya (18), were going to deliver the contraband to Shabana Bukhari in the industrial Shapar-Veraval area. They had earlier worked as carriers to bring drugs from Surat. Bukhari was also booked in a drugs case earlier.
In another seizure, Rajkot special operations group (SOG) caught two people with 28kg of ganja worth Rs three lakh on the Ahmedabad highway near Bamanbore. The two caught were Mohammed Yasin alias Asif Qureshi, 42, a native of Bhavnagar, and Budhesh Pandit, 33, from Shapar. A woman named Jayna involved in the trafficking is yet to be arrested.