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PANAJI
The Panaji police has seized ganja worth Rs 60 thousand and arrested three persons in two different raids in Taleigao on Saturday.
On Saturday, a West Bengal native Bishwanath Adhikari was arrested with 150 grams of ganja worth Rs 30000 in the raid at Taleigao. In
another incident, Rakesh Vaidya along with Sandesh Kutkar was arrested with 130 gms of ganja worth Rs 26,000.
All three accused, who are aged below thirty, have been remanded to four days police of custody by JMFC.
The cases of ganja seizure have been increasing in Panaji year by year. Recently,
during a demolition drive, Panaji corporation officials found kilos of ganja from the site.
In 2019 itself, 107 people have been arrested in Goa in drugs-related cases. Out of the persons arrested, 27 are Goans while 56 were non-Goans and 24 foreigners.
