Kumar Rajiv Nayan
Bhabhua : Police, acting on a tip off, arrested two drug peddlers and seized about 96 kg of Ganja and Rs. 2.83 lakh cash, Rs 9,000 in old currency, scales, weights, and a mobile phone from their possession in Kaimur District in South Bihar on October 4, 2020, evening.
The arrested drug peddlers were identified as Kamlesh Prasad Kesari of Badaki Miriyan under Sonhan police station and Moti Lal Ram of Basti under Durgawati police station in Kaimur district.
Kaimur SP Dilnawaz Ahmad said that he was tipped off that a gang of drug peddlers was quite active in Kaimur district. He formed a special police team to keep vigil on the drug peddlers. Meanwhile, the police team, on getting information, conducted raids at a grocery shop under Sonhan police station and arrested the shop owner Kamlesh Prasad Kesari with IMFL and Ganja. During interrogation, he revealed that he brought over Ganja from Durgawati and Rohtas to sell in the market.
On his revelation, police conducted raids at a house at Nai Basti under Durgawati police station and seized about 96 kg of Ganja, Rs. 2.83 lakh cash, Rs 9,000 old currency, scales, weights and mobile from there. Police also arrested a drug peddler Moti Lal Ram there. The SP added that Moti Lal Ram had been arrested by the Sayyadraza police station in Uttar Pradesh with 25 kg of Ganja earlier. Moti Lal Ram also disclosed that several mobile numbers of Ganja smugglers of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, and Odhisa, are saved in his mobile phone. He also revealed that after an order was placed, a party from Odhisa delivered the consignment within a week in Kaimur a on Pick-Up van crossing borders of different states in India.
The SP stated that during interrogation, Moti Lal Ram confessed that he along with Madan Singh of Madhopur under Durgawati police station and Halchal Singh of Chowthi village under Bhabhua police station smuggled Ganja from Odhisa and supplied it to different places in Uttar Pradesh and in Bihar.
The SP said that FIRs against Madan Singh were lodged with Durgawati police station in the year 2004 and 2017 and Mohania police station in 1998 in connection with Ganja smuggling. Madan Singh had been in jail in connection with kidnapping of Pappu Mallah’s brother from Durgawati police station area, he said.
The SP stated that police are trying to know criminal history of Halchal Singh. He said that police are conducting raids to arrest Madan Singh and Halchal Singh on the revelation of arrested drug peddlers.