2-Quintal Marijuana Seized At Cuttack Railway Station, 1 Arrested

Cuttack: Excise Department officials on Thursday seized two quintal Marijuana at Cuttack railway station and arrested one person.

Notably, a squad of Cuttack District excise conducted raid on Patna-Puri Express in Cuttack Railway Station at around 1 pm on Wednesday night. They recovered two quintal of Marijuana (cannabis) from a person, identified as Manas Ranjan Singh, travelling in the express.

According to the sources, the contraband item was illegally being smuggled from Patna to Gandhipalli in Cuttack and Haldiapalli in Bhubaneswar. The value of the contraband has been estimated to be Rs 2 lakh, said an official.

On July, police had seized over a quintal of ganja and arrested seven persons carrying the narcotics.

A night police patrolling team intercepted two cars near Padua and seized the banned substance after searching both the vehicles.

The ganja was reportedly being transported from Padua to Angul district.

In a similar seizure, on June 23, police arrested a person identified as Kartik Bagh on charges of smuggling over 121 kg of ganja near Jeypore in Koraput district.

The banned substance was being transported to Jeypore town in an unregistered car; a police team had intercepted the vehicle and seized the ganja stuffed in a number of packets.