The Special Operations Group (SOG) of the city police on Saturday seized 20kg of ganja worth around Rs 10 lakh from the house of a woman in the Chharanagar area and arrested her under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.According to a complaint filed with the Detection of Crime Branch on Saturday by Ajaykumar Jabarmlal, an unarmed PSI attached to the SOG Crime Branch, the seizure was made during routine patrolling in the Sardar Nagar-Chharanagar area.
Acting on suspicion after spotting sealed parcels and black bags in the verandah of a house, the patrolling team cordoned off the spot and informed senior officers. The woman was identified as Gita Minekar . After following the procedures under Sections 42 and 50 of the NDPS Act, police searched the premises in the presence of two independent panch witnesses. Police found 10 suspicious parcels sealed with tape. Preliminary checks and subsequent testing by an FSL officer confirmed the substance to be ganja. During questioning, the woman allegedly told investigators that she and her brother, Ganesh Indrekar, were involved in storing and selling ganja, and that the stock was shifted after her brother was detained earlier at the Kalupur railway station. A case has been registered against Minekar, her brother, and her daughter under the NDPS Act.
