A joint team of the Anti-Crime and Cyber Unit, the Anti-Narcotics Task Force and Amanaka police arrested two men near JP Garden on the road to Saraona railway station in the Amanaka area after a 13 November tip that two men on a motorcycle were loitering to sell ganja.[1] The team identified the pair from the informer’s description of the two-wheeler and the suspects and caught them after they tried to flee on seeing police.[2] The two were identified as 56-year-old Radhakant Rana of Balangir, Odisha, and 40-year-old Parmanand Sahu of village Pohanda, Durg district.[1]

A search of the bag they carried found 2.522 kg of ganja.[1] Police valued the ganja at about Rs 1,26,100 and the total seizure with the motorcycle used in the offence at about Rs 1,66,100, and seized the motorcycle.[1]

Both men were booked at Amanaka police station as crime no. 381/26 under section 20(b) of the NDPS Act.[1] Police said detailed questioning on the ganja’s availability, transport, sale and supply network was under way to trace its sources and intended buyers.[2] Police said the commissionerate’s units had so far arrested 222 accused in 102 NDPS cases and seized drugs and other material worth over Rs 7.39 crore.[1]