Five held in Trichyfor pedding ganja

Trichy: In a crackdown against the ganja peddlers, the city police raided five locations and seized 560g from five people in the city on Friday. Edamalaipattipudhur police conducted raids at three locations while Palakkarai and Srirangam police raided a place each in their jurisdiction on Thursday.

In Edamalaipattipudhur, the police seized 450g from three locations in Mill colony. The police arrested S Balu alias Boobalan of Mill colony, B Madhan alias Madhubalan, 29, of Chinnakothamangalam in the area, and M Lakshmanan, 41 of Mill colony.

The Palakkarai police conducted a raid and found K Subramaniayan, 43, of Pirattiyur in Trichy, in possession of 100g of ganja near the railway gate in Palakkarai.

In the raid carried out by the Srirangam police, the police found P Karthik alias Mahamuni, 27, of Srirangamm in possession of 10g near Azahigiripuram check-post.

Police sources said that the sudden raids in five locations in the city were taken based on the instructions from higher officials following inputs on sale of Ganja in the city limits.

All the five were booked under the narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances (NDPS) Act, 1985, and released on bail.