10 kg ganja seized in Mangaluru, three held

Nearly 10 kg of ganja was seized from a lodge here and three persons arrested in this connection, police said.
Acting on a tip-off that ganja was being smuggled from Andhra Pradesh into Dakshina Kannada district, the city crime branch police raided a lodge in Falnir and arrested the trio yesterday, they said.
The ganja was being sold to agents who targetted sections of the public and students, they added.
Around 10 kg of ganja, three mobile phones, a digital weighing scale, small plastic packets used to fillthe drug and Rs 9,500 cash besides a two-wheeler were confiscated from the accused.

The total value of the seized items is estimated to be Rs 3 lakh, police sources said.
The accused had during interrogation confessed that they purchased the ganja from Chittoor in Andhra Pradesh.