Chhattisgarh Police is taking continuous action against the smugglers who are smuggling illegal substances in Chhattisgarh. The Chhattisgarh government under the leadership of Chief Minister Vishnu Dev Sai is adopting a policy of zero tolerance against smuggling of illegal substances and criminal activities. Action is being taken against drug smugglers. In this series, the Raigad police have busted a large network of ganja smugglers.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah recently asked Chief Minister Sai to stop such activities during his stay in Chhattisgarh. Jutmil police conducted a big ganja raid on August 28 under the guidance of Bilaspur Range IG Dr. Sanjiv Shukla and SP Divyang Patel on the basis of guidelines received from Police Headquarters New Raipur as per instructions of the Chief Minister to take action against illegal drugs. Five accused, including a woman, were arrested near Kodatrai, from whom 175 kg of ganja, an Alto car and a small elephant pickup vehicle (total assets of Rs 43 lakh) were seized.
Arrested main accused Santram Khunte Shakti (Chhattisgarh) and his associates were strictly interrogated. During the rigorous interrogation of the accused, the police got information about the modus operandi of traffickers and other gang members. After which, Inspector General of Police, Bilaspur, Dr. Under the guidance of Sanjeev Shukla, 5 different special teams of Raigad Police and Bilaspur Police were formed, which police teams performed successfully by displaying their wisdom and professional ability in District (Odisha), District Bilaspur, Village Pihrid and Village Charpara, District Sakti. (Chhattisgarh) conducted an investigation and destroyed the entire network of the gang.
On the instructions of the Chief Minister, the police are continuously working to eliminate the network of ganja traffickers. This is the first time that the accused have been arrested by establishing front and back links of seized ganja. These include a backward link – one supplying ganja from a production unit in Odisha – a gang transporting ganja from Byomkesh Khatwa district Baut (Odisha), Orissa border to Bilaspur Janjgir and other places – ahead of 5 accused arrested in the past on August 28. Link – Major Buyer Supplying Ganja in Surrounding Area – Bhagwat Sahu Pehrid Shakti, Forward Link – Supply of Ganja for further retail sale in Chhattisgarh – Deepak alias Nanhu Bharadwaj Shakti (Chhattisgarh), on memorandum of accused, from illegal ganja business. I-10 car, Celerio car, 06 mobiles and cash have been seized from the recovered amount.
The main leader of the team of ganja smugglers is Bhagwat Sahu, who has been in the business of buying and selling illegal ganja for a long time, initially he used to buy 4-5 kg ​​of ganja from a small supplier in Orissa and sell it in Chhattisgarh, later he got in touch with a big ganja supplier, Vyoma alias Vyomkesh. He used to come and buy ganja and transfer it to his vehicle at a secluded place. His team initially seized 15-20 kg of ganja to and from the house of the accused and kept it separately and then started supplying 1 quintal-2 quintal of ganja as per demand. Santram and Bhagwat, after buying ganja from the Odisha party, would come halfway with their accomplices while clearing the road, so that they would not be caught, then further their other associates would take the ganja, hiding it in their secret hideout. and sell it. The gang used to sell ganja through transportation in Chhattisgarh and many other states. Bhagwat has been involved in the illegal business of ganja for a long time which has not been caught by the police till date.
On August 28, after 05 accused of the gang were nabbed in Jutmil in Raigad district, all the others went on alert, switched off their mobile phones to avoid arrest and their entire channel went out of touch. The accused have been caught in all-round raids conducted by the Raigad Police at different places.
An in-depth interrogation of the main supplier Vyomkesh has revealed many shocking facts in which he has exposed a large network of illegal ganja production in the forests of District Bout, Orissa and its surrounding districts. Raigarh Police is sharing all important facts from the operation with Odisha Police and National Narcotics Bureau to completely destroy this ganja network. Raigad Police is committed to take similar action to completely ban the smuggling of ganja.
DSP Cyber ​​Cell Shri Abhinav Upadhyay, SDOP Kharsia Shri Prabhat Patel, Inspector Shri Rakesh Mishra, Inspector Shri Mohan Bhardwaj, Sub Inspector Shri Girdhari Sao, Head Constable Shri Satish Pathak, Shri. Krishna Gupta, Mr. Lomash Rajput, Mr. Amit Tirki, Mr. Rajesh Patel of Cyber ​​Cell, Mr. Durgesh Singh, Mr. Brijlal Gurjar, Constable Mr. Abhishek Dwivedi, Mr. Prashant Panda, Mr. Mahesh Panda, Mr. Adikant Pradhan, Mr. Vikas Pradhan, Mr. Naveen Shukla, Mr. Sushil Yadav, Mr. Jiteswar Chauhan, Mr. Ravindra Gupta, Mr. Lakheshwar Puraseth, Mr. Shasibhushan Sahu were involved.
Besides the 5 accused arrested earlier, Bhagwat Sahu, father Hulsaram Sahu, age 36 years, Village Pihrid Police Station Sakti, District Shakti, Deepak alias Nanhu Bhardwaj, Father Jagatram, 24 years resident of Village Purina Police Station Kharsia Vyom alias Vyomkesh. Khatua, Father Sanjit Khatua, Age 25 Years, Village Gudpada Police Station Baut, Odisha etc.
During the proceedings, i10 car CG 11 BH – 9507, Celerio car CG 10 BS – 1995, 06 mobiles, cash amount – Rs 7500, total – Rs 17 lakh, pre-seized 175 kg ganja, 02 four wheelers, Joomla seized – Rs. A total of 8 accused and property worth 72 lakhs were seized with a sum of 55 lakhs. Police constable Kishore Sahu village Sakrara Sakti (Chhattisgarh), who helped the gang, saved them from police raids and gave intelligence to the accused, was also arrested.
