A police head constable from Bengaluru rural district and three others have been arrested in Odisha’s Kandhamal on the charges of possessing Marijuana and sent to 14-day judicial custody.
The police in Karnataka claim Anand K, a police head constable attached to the Jigani police station in Bengaluru rural district, was investigating the case but there was a procedural lapse that led to his arrest.
The others who were arrested by Sarangada police on November 1 are Jayant, an Odia interpreter, Shyam Sundar, a police informant, and Naresh Pradhan, a suspect in a drug supply case in Jigani.
According to a police officer in Karnataka, Anand K was in Odisha to investigate a drug peddling case reported in October, which revealed the role of Sujit Rawat, a Marijuana supplier from Odisha who sent the contraband through trains. Jigani police received information from Naresh during the probe, and sent their team to Odisha for further crackdown on the gang.
A senior police officer said, “A team of six police officers led by Assistant Police Sub-Inspector Appaji took Sundar and Jayant with them. Jayant, who knew Odia, helped with translation. On October 31, the Bengaluru SP permitted them to go to Odisha. The next day, when the police had laid a trap posing as drug peddlers, Sundar managed to contact peddlers who agreed to supply 17 kg of Marijuana”.
