BHOJPUR POLICE ARREST FOUR DRUG PEDDLERS AND SEIZED 63 KG OF GANJA AND 52 PACKETS OF HEROIN

BHOJPUR POLICE ARREST FOUR DRUG PEDDLERS AND SEIZED 63 KG OF GANJA AND 52 PACKETS OF HEROIN

12-OCT-ENG 1

RAJIV NAYAN AGRAWAL

ARA--------------------Bhojpur police arrested two drug peddlers from Paharpur village under Agiaw (Gadhani) police station in Bhojpur district and seized 41 kilogram of ganja. The arrested drug peddlers were identified as Mananjay Mishra son of late Shatrughan Mishra of Paharpur under Agiaw (Gadhani) police station in Bhojpur district and Vashishth Kumar son of Hari Narayan Ram of Govindpur under Nawanagar police station in Buxar district. A named FIR was lodged with the police under Agiaw (Gadhani) police station under NDPS Act and the police sent them to jail after interrogation.

ASP Parichay Kumar said that the police got information that a big consignment of ganja had been brought in the house of Mananjay Mishra at Paharpur village under Agiaw (Gadhani) police station and was also dealing in it in the village. A police team was formed under the leadership of the SHO Agiaw police station and the police team along with the Circle Officer (CO) Gadhani, conducted raid at the residence of Mananjay Mishra after serving notice under the section 50 of the NDPS and seized 41.180 kilogram of ganja from the house. The police arrested Mananjay Mishra and the person dealing in the ganja, Vashishth Kumar from the spot.

In another incident, Bhojpur police seized 22.3 kg of ganja, an electronic weighing machine and a register from the house of a drug peddler Pankaj Kumar Singh alias Bhikhari Singh at Masadh village under Udwantnagar police station though Pankaj Kumar Singh succeeded in fleeing from the spot.

Yet in another incident, Bhojpur police, acting on a tip off, arrested two heroin smugglers from Ranisagar-Sahodih main road under Shahpur police station and recovered 52 packets of heroin from them. the arrested drug peddlers were identified as Bam Bahadur Paswan and Babloo Ram of Kanail village under Shahpur police station. A named FIR was lodged with the police under Shahpur police station under the NDPS Act against them and the police sent them to jail after interrogation.

SHO Shahpur police station Rajanikant said that the police got information that three drug peddlers were dealing in heroin near a graveyard on Ranisagar-Sahodiha main road under Shahpur police station. At once a police team under the Jagdishpur SDPO Rajeev Chandra Singh was formed. As the police team reached the spot, the drug peddlers tried to escape but the police chased and caught two of them though, one of the peddlers succeeded in fleeing from the scene. When the police searched, 52 packets of heroin was recovered from them.