The officials said that the police have seized 20 kg of ganja valued at Rs 4 lakh from a car and arrested three persons in this connection in Maharashtra`s Thane district, reported news agency PTI.
A police team spotted the car parked near a temple in the Kamathghar area on Friday.
During inspection, they recovered 20.663 kg of ganja concealed inside the vehicle, an official from Narpoli police station said, reported PTI.
The car was impounded and its three occupants were taken into custody, he said.
The seized ganja is valued at Rs 4,02,928 in the illicit drug market, the official said, reported PTI.
The arrested persons comprise two unemployed men, aged 25 and 29 and hailing from Shirpur in Dhule district, and a 25-year-old man from Madhya Pradesh, he said, reported PTI.
They have been booked under relevant sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, the police added.
Three held with 120 bottles of codeine syrup in Thane district
Meanwhile, three persons, among them two from Karnataka, have been arrested for alleged possession of 120 bottles of codeine syrup in Maharashtra`s Thane district, police said on Monday, reported PTI.
The trio were apprehended with the banned substance near the APMC market in Kalyan last month, an official said.
He said the police seized 120 bottles of codeine syrup worth Rs 27,000 and arrested Kalyan resident Tousif Asifg Surve (34), Lingraj Aparay Algud (40) and Irfan alias Mohsin Ibrahim Sayyed (34), both hailing from Karnataka, reported PTI.
A case has been registered against the accused under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, and a probe is underway to trace the source of the contraband and the intended customers, the official said.
Two peddlers held, drugs and cash worth Rs 2.36 crore seized
In another case, the Mumbai police have arrested two peddlers and recovered drugs, including heroin, charas and mephedrone, and cash worth Rs 2.36 crore from them, an official said on July 9, reported PTI.
During patrolling in the Lokhandwala Complex area in suburban Andheri on July 7, the Azad Maidan unit of the Anti Narcotics Cell (ANC) apprehended a 46-year-old man with 140 grams of mephedrone and 703 grams of charas, valued at worth Rs 1.14 crore, an official said, reported PTI.
The ANC team also recovered Rs 18 lakh cash from the man, he said.
In another case, the Kandivali unit of the ANC on July 8 arrested a 31-year-old peddler with 306 grams of heroin, valued at Rs 1.04 crore, in the Versova area, he said, reported PTI.
Both have been arrested under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, the official added.
(With inputs from PTI)
