Friday, September 2, 2016

Coastguard seizes 17,000kg of ganja

Chennai:
The Indian Coastguard has seized 17,050 kg of Ganja off Fourth Island near Rameshwaram during a joint coordinated operation with customs and other security agencies.
Working on a tip off Coastguard station Mandapam launched combing operation by deploying hovercraft beached near Fourth Island which resulted in seizure of the eight packets of Ganja wrapped in brown paper and covered by polythene bags under the sand. However, no one was arrested in this connection.
It is suspected that the contraband could have been smuggled from Andhra Pradesh and could be on its way to Sri Lanka. A detailed investigation is being undertaken.

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