Silchar: A 47-year-old man from Delhi was arrested with 2.7kg of ganja valued at Rs 40,000 at Churaibari near the Assam–Tripura interstate border in Sribhumi district, police said on Sunday.The accused, identified as Ravi Shankar Singh from Madhu Vihar in West Delhi, was apprehended during a routine naka checking at the Churaibari police checkpoint on Saturday night.According to sources, the contraband was recovered from a long-distance passenger bus travelling from Tripura to Guwahati. The vehicle was intercepted at the interstate check gate, where a team led by OC Niranjan Das conducted a thorough search.During inspection, police grew suspicious of a passenger carrying a shoulder bag. Upon searching the bag, officials recovered approximately 2.70kg of ganja. The estimated black market value of the seized contraband is around Rs 40,000, sources said.Preliminary investigation revealed that the accused was allegedly attempting to smuggle the cannabis outside Assam by posing as a regular passenger on the bus.Singh was arrested on the spot in the presence of independent witnesses and taken into custody. He was kept overnight at Bazaricherra police station for interrogation.On Sunday, police booked him under relevant sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act and produced him before the chief judicial magistrate’s court in Sribhumi, which remanded him to judicial custody, officials added.
