Four arrested, 200 kg cannabis, among others, seized
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Police Commissioner N. Shashi Kumar and other officers having a look at the seized ganja and weapons in Mangaluru on Wednesday.
Central Crime Branch sleuths and personnel from South Sub Division on Wednesday seized 200 kg of cannabis and arrested four persons on the charge of transporting it on a vehicle used to transport fish.
The police gave the names of the arrested as Mohammed Farooq (24), Moiuddin Nawaz, both from Kasaragod district of Kerala, Syed Mohammed (31) from Kushalnagar of Kodagu district and Mohammed Ansar (23) of Mudipu in Mangaluru.
Police Commissioner N. Shashi Kumar told reporters that Moodbidri Police Sub-Inspector Sudeep and his staff, who were looking for accused involved in recent dacoities in Moodbidri, were tipped off about the movement of cannabis from a village in Andhra Pradesh’s Visakhapatnam district to parts of Dakshina Kannada and also Kasaragod in Ke