55 kg of ganja being smuggled to Coimbatore seized from train; three West Bengal natives arrested

COIMBATORE: The govt railway police in Coimbatore on Tuesday seized 55 kg of ganja from an express train and arrested three natives of West Bengal on charges of smuggling the contraband.A special team of Coimbatore railway police on Tuesday afternoon boarded the Vivek Express train, going from Dibrugarh to Kanyakumari. The team boarded the train at Tirupur railway station and conducted a search of the passengers’ bags. The team found ganja in an unreserved general compartment of the train. Inquiries revealed that S Palash Mondal, 24, N Mithun Sarkar, 26, and D Rohit Das, 25, of Murshidabad were smuggling ganja from West Bengal to sell it in Coimbatore. The trio and the ganja were handed over to the Narcotics Intelligence Bureau - Criminal Investigation Department, which registered a case and began investigations.