Buxar police yet to arrest ganja smugglers

buxar: even as the buxar police lodged an fir on tuesday against murali singh, brother in-law of the district board chief, pappu singh, son of a senior rjd leader, and a leading businessman, visheshwar singh, besides five others for their alleged links with an inter-state gang of ganja smugglers, it is proving to be an uphill task for the police to bring the accused behind the bars owing to their political clout.it is to be noted that three smugglers, owing allegiance to a gang involved in supplying contraband from northeastern states to buxar, were arrested from the hotel milap here on sunday. on the basis of their confessional statement the fir was lodged and raids were conducted at various places in the district. so far only two persons, ajay singh and jairam singh kushwaha, have been arrested. those whose names figured in the fir and are still at large included murali singh, vishwanath singh, jagdish singh of balihar village under the simi police station, and pappu singh of dumraon town. a team of buxar police led by dsp p k mandal, on sunday raided the house of visheshwar singh located at the dakhin tola locality of dumraon, but it failed to recover the contraband or make any arrest even though pappu singh was supposed to be hiding there. buxar sp sunil kumar admitted the complicity of some of the men in khadi and khaki in the entire episode and said that all guilty persons would be brought to book.