An absconding drug peddler was nabbed by the Crime Branch, Bhopal from Bagh Sewania area on Saturday. last month the accused along with his two accomplices was caught while transporting illegal drugs but managed to escape the spot.
The accused Santosh Meena was wanted in a drug peddling case in which he was trapped by crime branch in August along with two of his accomplices but Meena escaped and on Saturday police received information regarding the accused and was nabbed later. Meena was booked for 16 crimes in Bagh Sewania police and works as property dealer.
On August 3, 2015 two drug peddlers were nabbed by the crime branch in August at Habibganj naka area and recovered 2.1 kg of Cannabis from their possession; one of the miscreants escaped.
Acting on a tip off regarding drug trafficking using a car, crime branch Bhopal acted swiftly and intercepted car bearing registration number MP04-NC-0182 and nabbed two miscreants while one of the miscreants who was driving the vehicle managed to escape the spot.
The two were identified as Mannu Saakre (18) and leel Kishan (55) while Santosh Meena who was driving the car escaped the spot. The police registered a case under NDPS act and started further investigation and nabbed the accused on Saturday. In the past few months drug consignments were frequently traced by crime branch police Bhopal which were mostly supplied from Andhra Pradesh and Odisha and the means of transport used by the drug traffickers was railways.