Kingpin of ganja smuggling racket arrested from AP
The Hindu
Continuing its crackdown on an inter-State ganja smuggling network, the Ernakulam Rural police have arrested the alleged kingpin of the gang from Andhra Pradesh.
The arrested was identified as Pallasreenivasa Rao, 26, of Andhra Pradesh. A special squad formed by District Police Chief (Ernakulam Rural) K. Karthik nabbed the accused after a three-day-long operation in a hinterland 300 kilometres away from Vijayawada. A taxi driver with suspected close links in the tribal belt, the accused used to be the contact person for Malayalis arriving in the area for ganja. The arrangement was such that he used to meet potential buyers along the national highway, showed samples, and if the clients were satisfied with the quality, a price was reached.More Related News