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100kg hashish seized from E Burdwan

Two persons on board, Biswajit Singh of Behala, Kolkata and Sunil Bera of Asanbona, Jhargram, were arrested and 100kg of hashish was recovered from their possession.

100kg hashish seized from E Burdwan

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A car with blue bacon was intercepted by the police in East Burdwan today.

The white sedan was bearing a forged ‘police ‘ sticker, too. Yesterday too, the police had seized 50kg of hashish from a van carrying a consignment from Odisha.

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Two persons on board, Biswajit Singh of Behala, Kolkata and Sunil Bera of Asanbona, Jhargram, were arrested and 100kg of hashish was recovered from their possession. A police team, acting on tip-off, was patrolling on the road and intercepted the speeding car near Sports Authority of India stadium on NH-2B (Burdwan-Suri Road) in the early morning today. Amandeep Singh, SP, East Burdwan, said, “After yesterday’s haul, we’d gathered a tip-off that on Monday morning a second consignment was on the way.”

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The detained persons told police that they had received the consignment in Kharagpur from a middleman who’d procured the packets from Keonjhor, Odisha the other day. The police came to know that the accused were assigned to handover the consignment to a trader in Guskara civic town in East Burdwan.

On Sunday morning, at Palsit toll plaza in Memari, police had seized 50kg of hashish from a van and four persons, including a woman were detained. The consignment was meant for a Birbhum based receiver, the police said.

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