Surat: Three people, including letter-based transporter, was arrested with a ton of marijuana or marijuana which was brought from Odisha from the Niyol checkpoint on the outskirts of the city on Monday.
Drugs are estimated to be worth more than Rs 1 Crore in the international market, police said.
Defendant – Mohammad Faim Shaikh (24), Mohammad Yusuf Shaikh (45) and Arun Mahadik (37) was arrested for alleged their involvement in the drug racket.
A crime branch detection team in Surat, based on specific information, has stopped the truck with Maharashtra registration near Niyol check-post on Monday.
When checking out they found 1,009,290kg marijuana worth more than Rs 1 Crore, packed in a transparent plastic bag and hidden in a fake truck compartment.
According to the police, Faim, a resident of Kerala and lived in the Nanpura area; And Joseph, also a Nanpura resident, was in the vehicle when confiscated.
During the primary interrogation of the duo, it was revealed that one Dilip Gowda had loaded marijuana from the village of Barampura Odisha and told the defendant to send it to Arun in Dinoli, a letter.
Based on this information, the police arrested Arun, Mahrashtra’s native residents and lived in Dindoli.
Police said that Arun was in the transportation business.
He has been related to Gowda a few months and returns and has decided to smuggle drugs to get money fast.
Gowda has made a false compartment in the truck to hide drugs.
Police said that before, the defendant had smuggled a small number of marijuana into the letter.
The police have registered a violation of the trio under narcotics and psychotropic substances (NDPS), and began investigating.