Dhanbad, Aug 6: Joint team of Railway Protection Force (RPF), Government Rail Police (GRP) and Crime Intelligence Branch ( CIB) seized 42 kg of Ganja from 12301 Howrah- New Delhi Rajdhani Express at Dhanbad railway station on Tuesday evening.
The team also arrested three couriers ( passengers) in this regard.
RPF Inspector Ajay Prakash told media persons that three passengers travelling in 2nd AC coach were going to Prayagraj from Howrah carrying 42 kg Ganja in three trolley bags. Each trolley bag was contained with 14 packets of Ganja.
As Howrah- New Delhi Rajdhani Express reached platform no 3 at Dhanbad railway station at 8.5 pm of Tuesday ,joint team of RPF, GRP and CIB conducted search in 2nd AC coach and arrested all trio with their trolley bags.
All trio arrested persons belong to different districts of Bihar. They were identified as Sourabh Kumar (18) of Nalanda , Akhlesh Mohan (24) and Ranjit Kumar ( 21) of Siwan district.
The joint team also seized mobiles and Rs 21,00 cash from their possession. FIR has been lodged in GRP station against them.
The arrested youth disclosed that Sanjay, a resident of Angul district of Odisha had given them three trolley bags to deliver to a person named Rajkumar at Prayagraj Station.
CIB inspector Arvind Kumar Ram, GRP sub inspector Nandlal Ram were leading the search operation.
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