CANACONA
A software engineer from Uttar Pradesh but employed with a Chennai-based software company and working online from Goa since the last seven months was arrested by Canacona police in the wee hours of Friday on charges of illegally possessing ganja at Palolem.
According to reports, Canacona police acted on a reliable information and conducted the narcotic raid between 2.20 am to 3.50 am on Friday at Ourem-Palolem, Canacona, and caught Ashish Sanjay Sharma (26).
The accused was allegedly found in possession of 60 grams of ganja.
Canacona police arrested the accused under the NDPS Act and he is in custody.
Police said the accused was an engineering student and had been working with a software company at Chennai.
While he was in Goa on holidays due to the Covid lockdown, he got stranded in Goa since March 1 and began working online by staying in Goa as per his company’s directions.
Canacona police is investigating the case.
