The police seized about a quintal of ganja worth Rs 10 lakh from a mini truck at the Auli junction of the Boriguma-Nabarangpur National Highway on Saturday night.
Inspector in-Charge of Boriguma police station BK Brahma said that while a Tata 1109 mini truck with no CG 10 C 2932 crossed the Boriguma gate, the police on suspicion chased it near Auli Chowk, where the vehicle was abandoned. The police found 81 packets of ganja in the truck, each weighing about eight kilograms. The driver managed to flee away, he informed.
In another recent incident; the police had seized a huge quantity of ganja at Chikli near Nabarangpur. The tribal pockets of the district bordering Chhattisgarh are emerging as major transit points for ganja smugglers. According to police sources, Dabugaon, Kodinga and Raighar blocks of Nabarangpur district have now become major transit areas of ganja trade. large quantities of ganja reach Nabarangpur and Boriguma after being illegally cultivated in the remote areas of the Maoist-infested Malkangiri district.
The drug smugglers transport this narcotic to other parts of the country via Chhattisgarh using the tribal areas of Nabarangpur district, sources revealed.