North India Statesman
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Kanpur, 20 August (HS). On Tuesday, the police team of Gujaini police station arrested two members of an interstate gang involved in smuggling of ganja from near Tatya Tope Nagar. The police team recovered a total of 16.147 grams of illegal ganja from a trolley bag and a backpack from their possession, which is worth about two and a half lakh rupees. Legal action was taken against both of them and they were sent to jail.
Deputy Commissioner of Police, South Zone, Ravindra Kumar said that the arrested ganja smugglers are Shivkant alias Shiva, son of Sunil Kumar, resident of Rajapur village, located in the Haidergarh police station area of Barabanki district and Rajendra Pratap Singh alias Munna, son of Girja Baksh Singh, resident of Bas village, located in the Tikaitnagar police station area of the same district.
During interrogation, they told the police team that they sell ganja by roaming around in Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and other states. Cases have been registered against both of them in many police stations of Uttar Pradesh including Lucknow, Meerut, Mathura, Unnao, Kanpur Nagar, Kanpur Dehat. Before this, they have gone to jail many times from Orissa.
As part of the campaign being run against criminals, based on the information of an informer, Gujaini police station in-charge Vinay Tiwari along with his team were searching for the suspects. However, they were arrested near Tatya Tope Nagar.
