The police arrested eight persons after an encounter.
AGRA: More than four quintal of 'high-quality' ganja (marijuana), being smuggled in a truck from Maoist stronghold of Malkangiri district in Odisha to UP’s Mathura district, was seized by police on Monday.
The Firozabad police also arrested eight members of an interstate gang following an encounter. According to senior police officers, the eight criminals included gang kingpin Satyabhan Pandey.
The estimated value of the recovered consignment is said to be worth Rs 2.5 crore.
Upon receiving a tip-off on Sunday that a truck from Naxal-hit area in Odisha was transporting a large consignment of contraband and after supplying a few packets in Firozabad district, the vehicle would leave for Mathura district, Firozabad police swung into action and started checking vehicles and intensified patrolling across the district, said police sources.