KUMUD JENAMANI
Jamshedpur, March 4: Police today arrested two men after seizing over 10 kgs of marijuana from a densely-populated locality under the Sonari thana area.
The seizure of marijuana was made from two houses in Sonari while the police were trying to unravel the network of brown sugar’s sale and supply in the city.
Revealing about the breakthrough against the narcotic drugs, senior SP, M Tamil Vanan said that they had set up a special taskforce for unravelling the sale of supply of narcotic drugs in the city.
“In the course of the operation against the narcotic drugs, we got an input that marijuana is being sold from two houses at New Gwala Bustee. Based on the information, the taskforce raided the houses at the small hours today when the police found the stock of the marijuana, ” said Vanan while addressing a press conference on Friday.
He said in the raids that were carried out by deputy superintendent of police (Headquarters-Ii) Kamal Kishore six kgs of marijuana was seized from the house of a 47-year-old man, Dinesh Singh and four kgs of the narcotic stuff from the house of 28-year-old Arvind Singh.
“Both the men were arrested and the marijuana stocks were seized. During interrogation, they confessed that they used to get the stuff from a man known as Anil Singh at Baridih. Now we are trying to arrest Anil Singh, ” the senior SP said.
Till the year 2020 steel city was free from the deadly brown sugar, but now the drug is being sold at several places in the city.
In the name of action against brown sugar sale, the police have so far arrested many drug peddlers, but have not been able to do anything to nab the main supplier of the narcotic drug.
As a result of the extensive sale of brown sugar, a large number of youngsters, including girls are getting addicted.