India
oi-Gaurav Sharma
At
least
30
quintals
of
ganja
worth
Rs
6.2
crore
was
seized
from
a
Delhi-bound
truck
in
Morena
district
of
Madhya
Pradesh,
and
its
driver
was
arrested,
police
said
on
Friday.
The
vehicle
coming
from
Maharashtra
was
intercepted
near
Savitapur
located
under
the
Civil
Lines
police
station
area
of
Morena
late
Thursday
night,
Superintendent
of
Police
Sameer
Saurabh
told
PTI.
“The
police
had
received
a
tip-off
that
a
huge
consignment
of
ganja
was
being
transported
secretly
in
a
truck
from
Nashik
(in
Maharashtra)
that
was
going
to
the
national
capital,” he
said.
The
contraband
was
concealed
under
sacks
of
fodder
and
being
smuggled
to
Delhi,
he
added.”
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Ganja
The
seized
contraband
was
worth
Rs
6.2
crore,”
he
said,
adding
that
the
truck
carried
a
Chhattisgarh
registration
number.
“Truck
driver
Samu
Yadav,
who
hails
from
Jaunpur
in
Uttar
Pradesh,
was
detained
and
later
placed
under
arrest
on
Friday.
He
is
being
interrogated
to
collect
information
about
the
modus
operandi,”
Saurabh
said.
The
accused
was
not
cooperating
in
the
interrogation.
In
the
morning,
he
said
that
he
was
bringing
the
consignment
from
Odisha,
but
after
intense
grilling,
he
told
the
investigators
that
the
banned
drug
was
being
transported
from
Nashik,
the
SP
said.
“The
accused
has
been
giving
different
statements
since
last
night.
So,
we
have
formed
a
special
team
to
quizz
him
as
we
suspect
that
some
powerful
people
were
involved
in
this
inter-state
drug
smuggling
racket,”
he
added.
