Uttarakhand’s Special Task Force arrested a 22-year-old man with 1.108 kg of charas, a cannabis resin, near the Asharodi check post in Dehradun on Wednesday.[1] The man was identified as Yusuf, who lived in Green View, Doon Gali, Malsi, in Dehradun and originally comes from Bihar.[2] The STF said he had brought the contraband from Kasol in Himachal Pradesh to sell it in Dehradun.[1]

The STF’s Anti-Narcotics Task Force arrested him during a checking operation following technical surveillance and manual intelligence.[1] The team stopped him, searched his belongings and found 1,108 grams of charas in a black bag.[1] A drug detection kit confirmed that the substance was charas.[1] He was arrested under Sections 8 and 20 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, and a case was registered at Clement Town police station with further legal proceedings under way.[1]

STF senior superintendent of police Ajai Singh appealed to students, parents and teachers to take part in the force’s anti-drug awareness campaigns and urged young people to stay away from drugs and from trafficking for money.[1] He also asked people to share information about traffickers with their nearest police station or the STF.[1] The press note gave no market value for the charas and named no one else in the network.[3]