A joint team of the police and excise officials arrested five ganja smugglers from different places of Ganjam and Kandhamal districts and seized around 1.25 quintals of the contraband from them, police said on Sunday.
The joint team conducted raids at Mandiapalli in Ganjam and Kotagarh and Phiringia in Kandhamal district on Saturday, the police said.
Two of a family was arrested from Bunjijoda village with 80 kg of ganja, while another person with his brother were arrested in Kandhamal. A motorcycle was also seized from the two brothers, police said.
The intelligence wing of the excise department arrested another man from Gajapati district with 30 kg of ganja from Mandiapalli near Brahmapur, the police added.