SONAMURA, Aug 17 (TIWN): With a record breaking ganja seizing, Sepahijala Police led by SP Kulwant Singh since Thursday have seized 2300 kg of ganja from Ananda Nagar area. Total 78 number of drums full of ganjas (cannabis) have been recovered hidden 5 feet beneath the ground at Sonamura led by SDPO Sudipta Deb and Sepahijala OC-Paritosh Das. While addressing media, SP said, in last four months total 2500 kilo of ganjas were seized by the District Police. Addressing media, Kulwant Singh said, "Since few days we were informed via secret sources of SDPO and OC about the hidden ganja stocks. Total for 10 hours the drive had been continued by Police and total 78 drums of dry cannabis were recovered. The time was lengthy as around 1 kani of area was covered by the illegal storage of those cannabis". "We have zero-tolerance against drugs and it doesn't matter at what amount an illegal storage have been kept. It may be 2300 gram or 2300 kg, but no criminal will be spared", SP said in a message for the mass. The SP further added, in last 4 months along with 25,000 kilo of ganja, 70,000 yaba tablet stocks, 24,000 phensedyls were seized. "The information may be small or big but police are acting very seriously to curb such crimes", Singh said.

“As a part of Anti-drug mission, police have spread its network at the subdivisional levels. We have put our secret informers and it has been told them if any kind of drug business is suspected they must informed police. Via any secret source police when have been complained, immediately police have taken action”, he added.

“It will take certain time to complete the mission of Drug-free Tripura. Hence it’s a long way to go. But Ganja cultivation have been stopped and the ending of ganja nurturing is right now police’s target in Sepahijala District”, SP added.