Lagatar24 Desk
Angul, June 13: In the Angul district of Odisha, a Special Task Force (STF) team detained three persons and confiscated 161 kg of Ganja from Chandrapur village on Sunday.
Sarmit Urma of Chandrapur Village (within the boundaries of Athamallik Police Station), Rohit Behra of Madhapur Village (within the boundaries of Athamallik Police Station), and Sunil Deep of Routpada (within the boundaries of Harabhanga Police Station, Boudh District) were identified as the three accused.
More than 161 kg of Ganja and other damning evidence were found and seized from the accused during a raid against illegal drug storage and sales, according to Kishore Kumar Panigrahi, the SP of the Odisha STF.
At the Athamallik Police Station, a case has been registered in response to the STF’s report.
Further investigation is going on.
The STF has confiscated more than 69 kg of Brown Sugar Heroin, 202 grams of Cocaine, 750 grams of Opium, and more than 115 quintals of Ganja or Marijuana as part of its campaign against the unlawful possession and sale of narcotic substances since 2020. Additionally, the STF has arrested more than 172 narcotics dealers.
