BSF seizes 6 kg of ganja left by fleeing smugglers at Tarali border
BSF troops patrolling the India-Bangladesh border at Tarali in Basirhat found 6 kg of ganja in a bag left behind by smugglers they chased on 14 June 2023. The cannabis, valued at about ₹60,000, was handed to the Tentulia customs office, and the smugglers escaped.
🇮🇳 Tarali border, Bithari-Hakimpur, Swarupnagar, Basirhat, North 24 Parganas · India
- Cannabis
- 6 kg
- Value (official estimate)
- INR 60,000
The seizure happened at the India-Bangladesh border at Tarali, a village in
Bithari-Hakimpur gram panchayat under Swarupnagar police station in Basirhat.[1] When the troops chased them, the smugglers left a bag behind and fled.[1]
A search of the bag found 6 kg of ganja, the local term for cannabis.[1]
The ganja had a market value of about ₹60,000.[1] The BSF handed the cannabis
to the Tentulia customs office.[1] The border force then began searching for
the smugglers, who had escaped.[1]
The BSF guards the India-Bangladesh border in the Basirhat area.[1] Smugglers’
activity along the Basirhat stretch of the border has been increasing.[1]
Sources
- মাদক পাচারের স্বর্গরাজ্য হয়ে উঠছে বসিরহাট. Ei Muhurte, 14 June 2023. In Bangla.
Open questions the AI reported
- The report was published on 14 June 2023 and describes the patrol as happening that day; it gives no separate calendar date for the ganja seizure.
- The report does not say who estimated the ganja's market value at about ₹60,000.
- The report does not identify the Tentulia customs office or say where it is based.
- No arrest was reported in the cannabis case; the smugglers fled and a search began.
- Only one account of the seizure was found; no BSF statement or second outlet report was located.
- Left out, as its quotation was not found in Ei Muhurte: BSF troops patrolling the same stretch of the frontier saw a group of smugglers gathered to move narcotics.