Ganja peddling case; two get 10 yrs imprisonment

Team Udayavani, Sep 28, 2018, 6:22 PM IST

Mangaluru: Two persons found guilty in a ganja peddling case have been awarded with 10 years rigorous imprisonment and slapped a penalty of Rs 1 lakh each by the Principal District and Sessions Court, the designated NDPS court on Friday, September 28^th.

The convicted have been identified as Chandra Kumar alias Sinnavan alias Chandra alias Kumar (36), a resident of Nadugani village in the Nilgiri district in Tamil Nadu, and Shanthakumar alias Rooban of Gani Panchaluru village in the Nilgiri district in Tamil Nadu.

A woman, Tamiluselvi, was also arrested along with the two accused, but was acquitted due to lack of evidence.

Incident synopsis

According to the charge sheet, the then DySP of Bantwal sub-division Raveesh C R and District Crime Investigation Bureau (DCIB) inspector Amanullah received credible tip-off about ganja peddlers, loitering at the Dharmastala KSRTC bus stand on May 25, 2017. Hence the a team of police rushed to Dharmastala and found Chandra Kumar and Shanthakumar holding a bag of ganja weighing around 20.135 kg and arrested them. The team was also assisted by the then sub-inspector of the Dharmastala police station Koragappa in trapping the accused and filed a charge sheet with the court.

Principal District and Sessions Court, Judge K S Bilagi upheld the arguments of Public Prosecutor Pushparaj Adyanthaya and convicted both the accused with 10 years rigorous imprisonment and slapped a penalty of Rs 1 lakh each.  Failure to pay the fine will attract an additional imprisonment of 6 months, the judge ruled.