Police on Thursday attached properties worth Rs 1.22 crore of three ganja smugglers of BS Padar Banuaguda village under the Umarkote police station in Nabarangpur district.
Subahas Bisoi and his two sons Subir and Rama Chandra had acquired the properties through illegally ganja trading. The properties were seized on basis of the order of Nabarangpur SP S Sushree under the provisions of the NDPS Act.
The attached properties included two buildings, a motorcycle and deposits of Rs 4.4olakh in the State Bank of India, ICICI and Axis Bank.
A team headed by Papdahandi SDPO Aditya Sen and the Additional IIC of Umarkote confiscated the properties and sealed the buildings.
Police said the three accused were illegally supplying ganja to New Delhi, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh; Several cases under the NDPS Act were pending against the trio in other States.
Besides, cases were registered against them Kosagumuda and Kodinga police stations in Nabarangpur district.
In 2021, the then Nabarangpur SP Smith Parmar had written to the Kolkata office of the Union Finance Ministry seeking permission to attach the assets of these ganja traders. This is not the first instance of police confiscating assets of ganja traders in the district.
On November 8, 2020, police had seized properties worth Rs 4. 77 crore illegally acquired by three ganja peddlers of Panaraguda village in Kosagumuda.