The police on Friday arrested a woman for possessing one kg ‘ganja’ near the Kakori railway station. She was identified as Phoolwati Gautam, a resident of Kasimganj in Hardoi district.
The police on the initiative of SSP had launched a vigorous drive to check the drug trafficking flourishing in the state capital. An information was passed on to inspector, Kakori police station, Sanjay Kumar Pandey in the wee hours of Friday about a group of drug carriers.
Trusting the words of the informer, a trap was laid at different sensitive points. A middle-aged woman was spotted near the railways station moving in a suspicious manner. She took a U-turn when she noticed a checking was going on.
She tried to flee when a woman constable asked her to get her bag checked. She was nabbed by the police along with the help of locals after a chase. A packet weighing one kg ganja was found hidden in the bag which she was carrying. She was brought to the police station for interrogation. She confessed to her crime and said that she was bringing the substance from Hardoi to be delivered in the state capital. She told the police she was given a commission for handing over the consignment. Phoolwati added she was involved in this business for the past five years.
ARRESTED
The police arrested a criminal involved in a number of incidents of molestation, attempt to rape and rape from his house located at Aramba village under Itaunja police station on Friday. He was identified as 23-year-old Raju was wanted by the police for the past six months after he managed to escape from the police custody.
The police failed to nab him despite sincere effort. Several raids were conducted at his probable hideouts. Senior sub-inspector (SSI) Girish Chandra Pandey said the police also sought the help of informers. He was informed on Friday morning that the had come to his house to meet his parents and also said that he was sleeping on a cot in front of his house. Raju’s house was surrounded and the youth sleeping there was nabbed.
Theft
A theft was committed at the house of Ghulam Atiq, a resident of the Aziz Nagar under the Madiaon police station, on the intervening night of Thursday and Friday. Unidentified culprits made off with valuables worth Rs 20,000. The police said that Atiq has gone to attend a marriage function of his relative at Mahmoodabad in Sitapur district. He left the house, along with his family, on Thursday evening.
When he returned on Friday morning, he found the room in a disorderly state. The culprits entered the house by breaking the locks of the doors. He lodged a complaint at the police station stating that a theft was committed at his house.