Chhattisgarh Police said on Monday that have arrested nine persons from three separate places and seized cannabis valued at Rs 4.50 crore from them in Gaurela-Pendra-Marwahi (GPM) district.
GPM Superintendent of Police Trilok Bansal told reporters that a truck was stopped at Kariam RTO barrier on Sunday night and 20.30 quintals of cannabis worth Rs 4 crore were seized.
Two persons, Firoz Khan of Odisha and Girish Yadav of GPM district, were arrested, the officer said.
In another case, police arrested 41-year-old Daulat Kewat of Madhya Pradesh after his car was stopped near a bus stand in Kudri village and two quintals of ganja of Rs 40 lakh were seized, the officer said.
In the third case, six people were held with 10 quintals of cannabis in Danikudi area. They were identified as Ramkumar Patel (50), Shankar Chouhan (23), Lakhan Kashyap (21), Shiv Kailash (23), Vishal Goyal (and Bablu Kumar Sahu (21).
