Police and NCB seize 62 kg of hashish at Faryari More in Kullu
Police and Narcotics Control Bureau officers seized 62 kg of hashish from Faryari More village in Himachal Pradesh’s Banjar valley on 30 July 2000 after a decoy deal, arresting panchayat pradhan Khub Ram and villager Ram Singh Tung; the NCB zonal director put the haul at about Rs 100 million in international street terms.
🇮🇳 Faryari More, Banjar valley, Kullu district, Himachal Pradesh · India
Police and Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) personnel seized62 kg of hashish from Faryari More
village in the Banjar valley of Kullu district on 30 July 2000 after a decoy arranged a purchase
with the sellers.[1]They arrested Khub Ram, the panchayat pradhan of Mashiar village, and Ram
Singh Tung.[1]
NCB Zonal Director Rakesh Goel told the reporter that the hashish would cost almost Rs 100 million
on the international market.[1]The same account describes Khub Ram’s arrest as part of a wider
pattern in which influential locals were involved in the trade.[1]It does not report charges,
custody or sentences for the two men.[1]
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Only Josy Joseph’s rediff.com feature could be opened for this seizure; no separate contemporaneous wire or agency release was found.
The Rs 100 million valuation is NCB Zonal Director Rakesh Goel’s international-market estimate in the October 2000 article, not a weighed street price at seizure.
The piece does not name the court step or bail outcome for Khub Ram or Ram Singh Tung.
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