Over 700 kg ganja, around Rs 9 lakh in cash seized, 5 held

VARANASI/BUNDI: Five persons have been arrested here and over 700 kg of ganja along with around Rs 9 lakh in cash were seized from them, police said today.

An ambulance was intercepted at Chaubeypur Police Station area. During the checking, 737 kg of ganja, in 134 packets, worth around Rs one crore in domestic market was recovered from the vehicle, police's Special Task Force Inspector S K Singh said.

Rs 9.42 lakh in cash, of which nearly Rs eight lakh was in new currency notes was also seized from the vehicle, the officer said.

The five arrested have been identified as Triveni Gupta, Srinath Yadav, Bunty Gupta all from Azamgarh, and Jakir Hussain and Altaf Hussain both native of Assam, he said.

They used to transport ganja from Assam to Uttar Pradesh and other states in the vehicle, Singh said.

Meanwhile, in an another incident in Bundi, Rajasthan, over Rs 2 lakh in cash was seized from a police station by sleuths of the Anti-Corruption Bureau, officials said.

Acting on a tip-off, Anti-Corruption Bureau sleuths conducted a raid at Vidutt Police station late last evening and seized over Rs two lakh in cash, Traun Kant Somani, Deputy Superintendent of Police of ACB said.

Since officials at the police station could not give a satisfactory reply about the source of the money, an investigation has been initiated, the officer said.