Police have arrested four persons in connection with the seizure of 81 kg of ganja from a car on August 22 night.
The accused had fled from the spot during the police raid abandoning the car.
The four arrestees were identified as Pinku Kumar Sahu, Balbhadra Biswal, Jagdish Pradhan and Khirasagar Sahu .All the accused belong to Paikmal area of Bargarh district.
Notably, acting on a tipoff a team of Tushura police had intercepted a Maruti Desire car and seized the contraband near Bhutiarbahal in the district.
During investigation, it was ascertained that the ganja was procured from Baliguda and was transported to Chhattisgarh, informed Balangir SDPO Srimanta Barik at a Press conference here on Monday.