DRI seizes 3,878 kg of ganja in Tripura and Assam raids
The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence and police seized 3,878 kg of ganja in back-to-back operations on 1 and 2 August 2018: 3,390 kg buried in drums on two men's land in Sepahijala, Tripura, and 488 kg in an abandoned house in Karimganj, Assam. Two men were arrested under the NDPS Act.
🇮🇳 Sepahijala district, Tripura and Karimganj district, Assam · India
India’s Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, working with the Tripura and
Assam police, the Border Security Force and the Central Reserve Police
Force, seized3,878 kg of ganja in two back-to-back operations on 1 and 2
August 2018.[1][2]On 1 August officers searched the premises of Delowair
Hossain and Hussain Ali in Sepahijala district, Tripura, and found about
3,390 kg of dry cannabis packed in 85 plastic drums and buried in the
soil of their land.[1][2]Both men were arrested under the Narcotic Drugs
and Psychotropic Substances Act.[1][2]
On 2 August a second team seized 488 kg of ganja from an abandoned house at
Angla Bazar in Badarpur, Karimganj district, Assam.[1][2]The DRI said it
was the seventh successive seizure of Tripura-sourced ganja detected in the
northeast, with 8,900 kg taken in recent months, and described large-scale
cultivation under rubber plantations in Tripura’s hills as a new
trend.[1][2]
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