Mapusa: Police arrested five accused and seized narcotics worth Rs 10 lakh from them in Mapusa town, 9 km away from here.
Goa police spokesman said that three persons—Chandankumar Sharma (22), Rohit Sharma (21), and Imtiyaj Ansari (21), all from Jharkhand, along with Vijay Volvoikar (25) and Parshuram Lamani (36) from Goa—were arrested for possessing ten kilograms of ganja, worth Rs 10 lakh.
He said that the raid was conducted on Thursday at the parking lot of the New Kadamba Transport Corporation bus stand, where all five accused were found to be peddling drugs.
Police seized ganja worth Rs 10 lakh from the three accused—Chandankumar Sharma, Rohit Sharma, and Imtiyaj Ansari—who had arrived to deliver drugs to peddlers Pradeep Volvoikar and Parshuram Lamani.
The spokesman said that the investigation is in progress.
Team of Staff: PSI Yeshwant Mandrekar, PSI Bablo Parab, PSI Aditya Gad, PSI Vishal Kuttikar, PSI Ajay Dhuri, PSI Dattaprasad Pandit, HC Sushant Chopdekar, PC Rajesh Kandolkar, PC Akshay Patil, PC Vinay Hiroji, PC Prakash Polekar, PC Sidh Kambli, PC Datta Gadekar, PC Anand Rathod.
The investigation of the case is in progress with PSI Vishal Kuttikar under the supervision of PI Nikhil Palekar, SDPO Mapusa Shri Sandesh Chodankar, and overall supervision of SP North Akshat Kaushal IPS.
