A pair in Bengaluru has been arrested by the Narcotics Management Bureau (NCB) for cultivating hashish vegetation on their balcony.
The Sadashivanagar police in Bengaluru lately arrested the couple from their residence in MSR Nagar, in response to The New Indian Specific.
Ok. Sagar Gurung (37) and his spouse, Urmila Kumari (38), from Sikkim, run a fast-food joint on the bottom ground of their constructing in Bengaluru. They’d been rising ganja in two pots on their balcony, together with ornamental vegetation. The matter got here to gentle when Urmila shared images and movies of her vegetation on Fb, and her followers noticed the ganja. This led to the police being alerted and an investigation being launched.
When the police arrived, a relative of the couple reportedly warned Urmila, giving her time to take away the ganja vegetation from the pots and throw them away. Nevertheless, the police discovered traces of the vegetation, with some leaves nonetheless remaining within the pots.
Throughout questioning, the couple admitted to rising the ganja vegetation to promote them for revenue. The police recovered about 54 grams of ganja and seized their cellphones to test for any hyperlinks to additional distribution. Though Urmila initially denied posting the content material, officers confirmed the social media posts from October 18.
The couple was taken into custody however later launched on bail. A case has been filed underneath the Narcotic Medication and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.
Bengaluru’s Central Crime Department (CCB) Narcotics Management Unit, together with Customs officers, lately seized medicine price Rs 21.17 crore on the metropolis’s International Put up Workplace.
The workforce inspected over 3,500 suspicious parcels, with the assistance of a canine squad, and located 606 parcels containing unlawful substances from nations just like the US, UK, Belgium, Thailand, and the Netherlands. The medicine included hydro ganja, LSD, MDMA crystals, ecstasy tablets, heroin, cocaine, amphetamine, charas, and ganja oil.
