5 held in separate incidents of drug peddling

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Press Trust of India Ghaziabad
Last Updated : Jun 19 2016 | 11:02 PM IST
Five persons were arrested and a huge cache of cannabis and doda powder seized in separate incidents of drug peddling here, police said today.
In the first incident, acting on a tip-off, police nabbed Mamooni, Nasreen and Farzana, all in their late thirties, from Murmura colony and seized 8.7 kg of cannabis from their baggage yesterday.
The trio confessed that their father and other family members were surreptitiously supplying cannabis.
In the second incident, which also occurred yesterday, Indirapuram police nabbed one Vinod from Kaushambi colony and seized 1.25 kg cannabis from his bag.
In the third incident, Sahibabad police arrested Abid from Shaheed nagar and recovered 1.5 kg doda powder from his possession. All have been sent to jail under Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act (NDPS), police said.
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First Published: Jun 19 2016 | 11:02 PM IST

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