Ganja smuggling

ganja smuggling
Hyderabad, July 3: Hyderabad police have busted an inter-state ganja smuggling gang that was using the Postal Department’s Speed Post services to deliver marijuana straight to customers’ doorsteps. The gang, which took ganja orders in coded language through WhatsApp and Telegram apps, booked parcels at post offices under the guise of medicines and supplied ganja, earning crores of rupees over four years. HNW police arrested Satyam Mishra, the key mastermind of the gang operating out of Jharkhand. Hyderabad CP VC Sajjanar revealed these details to reporters on Thursday.
Satyam Mishra, hailing from Tambaguria in Giridih district, Jharkhand, formed a gang along with his elder brother Shubham Mishra and relatives Rahul Jha alias Chhote Mishra, Sachin Mishra, and Santosh Pandit, and launched this racket. Satyam Mishra, who previously worked as a lorry driver, became addicted to ganja while in Mumbai in 2018. He developed contacts with people who had ganja and drug habits. Facing financial difficulties, Satyam Mishra returned to his native village and started cultivating ganja along with his brother. He also encouraged the villagers to take up ganja cultivation. However, thinking that transporting ganja in cars and buses would get them caught by the police, they identified postal services as an alternative.