Hyderabad: The Government railway police in coordination with Railway Protection Force busted an interstate ganja smuggling racket with the arrest of a person at Secunderabad railway station here on Monday. Half a dozen kgs of ganja, worth Rs.1.50 lakh was seized from the possession of the arrested person identified as Khodabox Sk, 26, a construction worker and native of West Bengal. Two other peddlers Ali Khan of Odisha and Joy of Maharashtra were absconding, according to police. The police said Khodabox was addicted to consuming alcohol, smoking cigarettes and eating gutka. Three years ago, he went to Odisha to work as a laborer. At his workplace, Khan and his friends used to consume ganja. Last month, Khan hired Khodabox to smuggle ganja to Dadar in Maharashtra and hand it over to Joy for which he used to pay Rs.10,000 on every trip. As usual, on January 12, Khan and Khodabox went to Barhampur forest area and purchased ganja. He then preserved it in a backpack bag and handed it over to Khodabox for transporting up to Dadar. Khodabox boarded the rear side general coach of Visakha express bound to Secunderabad on Sunday and at 9.30 am on Monday the train arrived at platform number two at Secunderabad railway station, where he de-boarded. Upon enquiry, he learnt that the train to Mumbai was scheduled to depart from platform number seven. Then he went there and was waiting for Konark Express when the police apprehended him while moving in a suspicious manner and seized ganja.
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