Two held with cannabis value Rs 3 lakh in Panvel

Taloja law enforcement arrested two people and seized cannabis truly worth Rs 3 lakh from them on Friday midnight from a roadside hotel in Tondre Village in Panvel taluka. They experienced come to offer the contraband.

Anil Jadhav,34, a constable connected to Taloja law enforcement station been given information and facts on Thursday night all around 10.30 pm that two folks had been coming to Azad hotel near Tondre Village in Panvel to market cannabis.

Centered on the facts, a team of police arrived at the location all over 12.20 am reached the hotel and nabbed two folks. When they were frisked, they discovered 3 compact plastic pouches crammed with grass-like substances from their pockets.

Kashinath Chavan, senior police inspector from Taloja law enforcement station checked by odor, he discovered it was cannabis. “When we asked how considerably they had brought in, they did not expose the amount,” claimed Chavan. On the other hand, when the law enforcement interrogated coercively, they discovered that they hid far more cannabis inside of the lodge. “We identified a bag made up of grass like material saved in a wooden box,” explained Chavan. He included that the total quantity of the seizure was close to 15.5 kgs worthy of Rs 3,00,400.

Both of those the accused recognized as Amit Singh, alias Rohit, 30, a resident of Tondre village in Panvel and indigenous of Uttar Pradesh and Chhotelal Pal, 35, a resident of Tondre village and indigenous of Madhya Pradesh. They were being arrested below sections 188, 270 and 271 of IPC and sections 8(C) and 20(B) of NDPS Act 1985.

Previous week, the Uran law enforcement had arrested two persons and seized cannabis truly worth Rs 1.2 lakh from a garage.