A four-member team of a Special Task Force (STF) of the State Crime Branch (CB) arrested a ganja smuggler from Sambalpur and seized 221 kg of ganja worth Rs 20-30 lakh from his possession on Friday.
The accused was identified as Trinath Gadanayak of Jamujhari village in Sambalpur. On a tip-off, the STF team conducted a raid on Gadanayak’s house in Jamujhari village from where he was running a ganja trade for many years. After failure of the Sambalpur police, the CB team conducted the surprise raid to arrest the culprit. Gadnayak was importing ganja from Cuttack and Boudh and was selling it to drug peddlers in the area, said CB sources.