Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru
Mangaluru, Jul 3: In a major haul, the city crime branch police (CCB) on Monday July 3 seized 10 kg of ganja and arrested three persons.
The arrested are Rameez Raaz (24), a resident of Naringana, Bantwal, Mohammed Haneef (31), a resident of Natekal, and Iqbal Haris (24), a resident of Belma.
On receiving information that ganja was being smuggled from Andhra Pradesh into Dakshina Kannada and being sold to people from a lodge in Falnir here, the CCB police raided the spot and arrested the trio.
The police seized 10 kg of ganja, three mobile phones, a digital weighing scale, small plastic packets used to fill ganja in, Rs 9,500 cash and a Honda Unicorn two-wheeler from the accused. The total value of the seized items including ganja has been estimated at Rs 3 lac.
During investigation, the police learnt that the accused had purchased the ganja from Chittoor in Andhra Pradesh and had brought to Mangaluru, where they had taken a room on rent in a lodge at Falnir. The accused used to sell the ganja in little packets to college students and public.
Accused Rameez is an accused in a case of vandalism that took place in hotel at Todugoli cross under Konaje police limits in 2016. He was also arrested in a ganja peddling case and later granted bail.
Mohammed Haneef is an accused in a ganja peddling case registered in Mangaluru rural police station in 2016, while Iqbal is an accused in five cases, including kidnap and rape of a medical student in Konaje, assault in Mulky police station, assault on cops in Suratkal police station and assault on an undertrial named Ilyas in Mangaluru jail.
The accused as well as the seized items have been handed over to Mangluru north police for further investigation.
The police said that action will also be taken against those who bought drugs from the three accused.
The raid operation was conducted on the orders of police commissioner T R Suresh, and under the directions of DCPs Shantharaju and Hanumantharaya. The team was guided by ACP Valentine D'Souza, and led by CCB inspector Sunil Y Naik.