Three arrested with 10 kg of ganja at Bandel, Hooghly
Chandannagar police stopped a taxi near the Keota checkpoint in Bandel, Hooghly and seized 10 kg of ganja. Three people travelling in the car, including a woman, were arrested.
🇮🇳 Keota checkpoint, Bandel, Hooghly, West Bengal · India
Three people were arrested at Bandel, described as including a woman.[1]Three
persons were arrested with 10 kg of marijuana on a Saturday.[1]Police
identified one of the three people held as Sagar Tamang, who was in the car with
the ganja.[1]Sources identified the driver of the car as Purushottam Jha.[1]
The crime branch stopped the vehicle near the Keota checkpoint in Bandel and
recovered 10 kg of ganja.[1]Police estimated the market value of the seized
ganja at several lakhs of rupees.[1]
The Special Branch said it had received reliable information that people were
coming to Bandel road with marijuana and had formed a team and laid a trap.[1]Police said the trio hired a taxi from Howrah station and told the driver they
would first go to Sealdah and then to Bandel station in Hooghly.[1]After
reaching Bandel, the car was to be taken on to Jirat Balagarh.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The article gives no separate date for the stop and seizure; 1 July 2023 is its publication date, which falls on the Saturday named in the text.
Only one of the three arrested people is named in the readable text, as Sagar Tamang; the driver is identified as Purushottam Jha, but the text does not make clear whether he is counted among the three, and the woman mentioned in the headline is not named.
The value is described only as more than a lakh of rupees and as several lakhs of rupees, so no exact value can be recorded.
No charges, court production or case outcome were reported.
Only one accessible source for this event was found after searching in English.
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