Crime branch of Bhopal police has nabbed two miscreants and recovered two kilograms of cannabis from a car at Barkhedi Pathani on Sunday.Acting on a tip-off, a car bearing registration number MPO4-NC-0182 was intercepted and when it was stopped the driver after stopping the car escaped the spot leaving the other two accomplices. When the car was searched, the police found two kgs of cannabis.
The two were identified as Mannu Saakle (18) and leela Kishan (55) while the third accused, who managed to escape, was identified as Santosh Meena. Police have intensified the search for the absconding accused.Mannu Saakle has been booked earlier in illegal drug trafficking case while Santosh’s father Hariram Meena was arrested for illegal drug trafficking.
Police have claimed that the seized vehicle belongs to Santosh Meena, who went fled the spot leaving the vehicle.During the investigation, police have recovered 2.1 kg of cannabis. The car was seized by the police in the investigation and a case under section 8/20 NDPS Act has been registered.Earlier, drug consignments were frequently traced by crime branch of Bhopal police, which were mostly supplied from Andhra Pradesh and Odisha and the means of transport used by the drug traffickers was railway and most of the miscreants were nabbed from railway station areas of the State capital. The crime branch of Bhopal police had got information from the nabbed accused that the drug consignment would be brought by the road in a private car.Police claimed that with the arrest of the miscreants, suppliers and dealers of the city and nearby areas would also be nabbed.