Six people have been arrested and over 380 kg of ganja valued at more than Rs 18 lakh has been seized from them by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) in New Delhi as part of an inter-State narcotics smuggling busting operation.
As per information available on Monday, the contraband was seized from a truck at Sarita Vihar on February 25. It was recovered from a secret cavity created behind the driver’s seat of the truck bearing a registration number of Andhra Pradesh, an NCB official said.
The six persons involved in trafficking of the drug from Odisha’s Ganjam district to Delhi were arrested under the NDPS Act, he said, adding that the arrested included the supplier, the transporter and the receiver. Two four-wheelers, which were escorting the truck, were also seized.
Notably, ganja is sold in the National Capital Region (NCR) at Rs 5,000 to Rs 6,000 per kg.