An accused was arrested from Mathura for allegedly carrying a reward of Rs 20,000 in connection with a drug peddling case, police said.
The police on August 8, had recovered with more than a tonne of ganja valued at about Rs 2 Crore from the suspect hideout from a locked house in Gurugram's Pataudi area.
The alleged drug was being transported from Odisha, police said on Thursday.
The arrested accused was identified as Deshraj, a resident of Kuni Daulatabad village here in Gurugram.
During police interrogation, it was found that the recovered ganja was brought by the accused in a truck from Orissa and was hidden in his closed house.
"The estimated cost of the ganja was found to be Rs 2 Crore. The ganja was sold in small packets to the customers. Gurugram Police had dealt a tough blow to the smugglers of ganja by seizing such a huge consignment of illegal ganja.
Before this drug could be supplied to various places, Gurugram Police had taken major action against the smugglers and recovered the illegal contraband," Sandeep Kumar, spokesperson of the Gurugram police said.
The accused has been produced in the court for further interrogation and was taken on 8 days police remand.
During the remand period police will assertain the whereabouts other members of the accused. Whatever facts emerge in the proceedings being conducted by the police team," the spokesperson said.
The investigation team earlier had said that, the crime branch DLF Phase-IV had received secret inputs from their reliable sources that a huge quantity of Ganja was stocked in the Pataudi area. Based on the information a team from the crime branch reached the disclosed spot but found that the house was locked.
Meanwhile, the police team somehow manage to trace the owner of the house who gave us in writing to open his house.
Police then in the presence of duty magistrate and village head (Sarpanch) opened the house and recovered the huge quantity of illegal contraband.
The illegal contraband was stuffed in at least 21 plastic bags.