NEW DELHI: The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has arrested 3 people and seized 370 kgs of cannabis (ganja) in the poll-bound state of Bihar, officials said on Wednesday.
The narcotics was seized from a truck in Bhagalpur district on Tuesday and the cannabis was hidden beneath a consignment of coconuts, the central probe agency said.
“One among the arrested is G K Sah, a resident of Madhubani district of the state, and he is a major ganja trafficker operating in north Bihar.
He sources the narcotics from the illicit ganja production belt of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha border,” NCB Deputy Director (operations), K P S Malhotra, said.
The consignment was believed to be sourced from Vishakhapatnam and was on way to Madhubani, he added.
Polls for the 243-member Bihar assembly will be held in three phases– October 28, November 3 and November 7– and counting of votes will be held on November 10.
The agency is probing the financial trail and other…
