The Bengaluru crime department police has arrested three contract staff of the North East Frontier Railway for allegedly promoting cannabis oil and ganja after smuggling them from Assam.
The employees–an AC attendant and two bedroll staffers–had been arrested on Wednesday outdoors the brand new Sri M Visvesvaraya Terminal on the Byappanahalli railway station in east Bengaluru following a tip-off in regards to the smuggling of medicine into the Karnataka capital, police stated, including that they’d additionally seized one kg of cannabis oil and 6 kg of ganja valued at over Rs 80 lakh in complete.
The arrested accused have been recognized as Pintu Das (23) and Rajesh Paul (24 ) from Tripura and Bappa Dey (37) from Assam. “The arrested individuals had been employed as contract staff.
They procured medication like cannabis oil and ganja at a low price in Assam and stored them hidden within the lockers assigned to them in railway bogies on the trains the place they carried out their official duties. They introduced consignments to Bengaluru and offered them to peddlers,” police stated in an announcement.
The accused allegedly made a revenue of Rs 4 lakh on each kg of cannabis oil they offered in Bengaluru and Rs 40,000 to Rs 50,000 on each kg of ganja. They allegedly sourced cannabis oil for Rs 1 lakh per kg and ganja for Rs 2,000 per kg from one Suman and offered them to a supplier recognized as Rajeeb.
A case was registered underneath the Narcotic Medicine and Psychotropic Substances Act 1985 in opposition to the trio on the costs of possession and sale of a industrial amount of hashish, financing of illicit trafficking and abetment of trafficking.