The Muffasil police of Hazaribag has seized 158 Kg Marijuana from a pick up van which was operating without registration number. It was kept in 48 bags on Ranchi- Patna road. The driver of the van ran away from there. Police seized the van.
As per the information given by the SDPO of town Mahesh Prajapati the Muffsil police received information that a pickup van has been seen loaded with Marijuana on Ranchi-Patna road. After getting the information the officer in charge of Muffsil police station Bajrang Mahto started the checking of vehicles on Ranchi- Patna road.
The police saw that one of the white color pickup vans was coming from Ranchi at high speed. The police tried to stop the van.
The driver of the van increased the speed. The police chased the van. As the van stopped the driver of the van ran away from there.
During the search of van police found that the packets were kept in the van. Out of 48 bags, 30 were big and 18 were small. The price of the seized Marijuana is near about Rs 20 lakhs in the International market.
Police have lodged a case in the police station and have started the search operation to arrest the driver of the van.