Bengaluru: Police pose as big-time ganja traders, seize 110 kg marijuana from truck driver

Team Udayavani, Nov 14, 2020, 10:16 AM IST

Bengaluru: The city police who impersonated themselves as big-time ganja traders arrested a drug peddler.

The arrested is  identified as Shivakumar aka Shiva (27), resident of Chikkaballapur district.

Reportedly, the accused used to transport marijuana hidden in his vegetable supply truck from Chilkkaballapur to Bengaluru, which is 50 km afar.

After getting the police team runaround, he finally came on a video call and asked them to show money if they really wanted such a quantity, the police did what he said only then he decided to meet them. The police team had placed an order of nearly 17 kg from him.

“We were stunned to see the way he had managed to store it in his house. It can only be done by an after gaining a lot of experience as a professional smuggler,” the police said.