Mau Kotwali Nagar police and the SWAT team arrested three women cannabis smugglers near the selfie point by the railway overbridge at about 10:30 am on Friday.[1][2][3] The women, residents of the AIIMS and Gayatri Nagar police areas of Gorakhpur district, were standing with trolley bags waiting for the bus to Gorakhpur.[1][3] Additional Superintendent of Police Anoop Kumar said a tip-off had warned that three women were waiting with a ganja consignment for the Gorakhpur bus.[1] The women tried to move away when they saw the police, but officers with a woman sub-inspector and women constables caught them.[1][4]

A search of the trolley bags found seven packets in each bag, holding a total of 78 kg of ganja.[1] Dainik Bhaskar reported that the ganja was carried in four trolley bags, 28 sealed packets in all, weighing about 78 kg.[5] The women told police they brought ganja from Ranchi, the Jharkhand capital, by train and sold it in Gorakhpur at high prices.[1] Police said one of the women, Suman, had been jailed before in a Gorakhpur ganja smuggling case and had also faced action under the Gangsters Act.[1]

Police seized the ganja, registered a first information report against all three women and sent them to judicial custody in jail after producing them in court.[1] The operation was carried out under Superintendent of Police Sarvesh Kumar Mishra’s instructions, supervised by Anoop Kumar and led by City Circle Officer Nitesh Pratap Singh, according to Dainik Bhaskar.[5] Police said they were gathering information on other people linked to the smuggling network and on the source of the ganja supply.[1]

Amar Ujala’s video report named all three arrested women and stated that all three lived in Gorakhpur district.[2]

Suman, 45, from Kuraghat under the AIIMS police station of Gorakhpur district, had been jailed before in a Gorakhpur ganja smuggling case and had also faced action under the Gangsters Act.[3] The other two women were identified as Kusum, 25, of Gayatri Nagar, and Reena, 28, of Kuraghat, both under the AIIMS police station of Gorakhpur district.[3] Police said the three women had been involved in ganja smuggling for a long time and that interrogating them had given officers important leads.[3]