The Central Crime Branch (CCB) sleuths rounded up two youths of Odisha with cannabis (ganja) from Govind Guest House, Station Road, police said on Sunday.
The accused were trying to sell ganja in Raipur, police claimed.CCB sources informed that the accused were arrested on a precise tip-off from Govind Guest House behind Satkar Hotel station road. The accused were identified as Bhupendra Nath Kshatri (22) hailing from Mula Kanda village, Kala Handi district Odisha and Jagganath Bagh (20) native of Khaliya Pali village, Kala Handi, Odisha.
“In all 5 kg cannabis was seized from their possession whose market value is about `16,000,” informed CCB
officials. Gunj police has booked the duo under relevant sections of Narcotics Drug and Psychotropic (NDPS) Act. They were later produced in a local court that sent them to jail on judicial remand.