NCB seizes 170 kg of ganja hidden under fish feed in Sagar, arrests one
The NCB's Indore team stopped a truck at Titarpani Toll Plaza in Sagar district overnight on 8-9 August 2024 and seized 170 kg of ganja hidden under fish-feed sacks, arresting one person. The consignment had come from Devgaon in Maharashtra and was bound for Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh.
One person was arrested when the Indore zonal team of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB)
intercepted a truck at Titarpani Toll Plaza on the Lakhnadon–Lalitpur road (NH-26) in
Madhya Pradesh’s Sagar district on the night between Thursday and Friday.[1][2]Officers
searching the truck found 170 kg of ganja hidden beneath fish-feed sacks in its rear, and
seized the truck with the contraband.[1][2]
Watched on intelligence
Zonal director Ritesh Ranjan said the team had kept the traffickers’ movements under
surveillance on specific intelligence before stopping the truck.[1][2]The consignment had
been sourced from Devgaon in Maharashtra and was destined for Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh,
he said.[1][2]
Ranjan said it was the Indore unit’s eleventh seizure of the year, with more than 3,000 kg
of drugs valued at about Rs 9.5 crore taken in 2024.[1][2]
Photos and video
The arrested man with packets of the seized ganja and the impounded truck (ANI photo)Photo details
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