LSD blots, ganja seized in Kolkata, four arrested
Kolkata, April 17: The Kolkata unit of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) arrested four persons including two teenaged girls involved in a drug trafficking racket and seized 56 LSD blots and around three kgs of ganja from them, a senior official said on Tuesday.
Acting on a tip-off, the NCB officials on Monday arrested Afreen Ali (19) from Kolkata's Belgachia with 19 LSD blots and 2.8 kg ganja.
The sleuths later arrested her childhood friend Jewana Philips (19) for supplying her the consignment, who in turn named Prasant Basnet (22) of Kolkata's Picnic Garden as her supplier, the official said.
"Based on the statements of the three accused, we arrested Debyendu Roy (32), the main supplier in the racket, and seized 37 more blots of LSD from his residence in Kolkata's Dum Dum Park area," Dilip Kumar Srivastava, the Zonal Director of NCB-Kolkata, said in a release.
According to the NCB, further interrogations revealed that Roy used to procure the LSD from his friend in Bengaluru on a regular basis and supply it to different clubs, private parties as well as to city schools and colleges through youngsters.
He was also arrested in 2015 by the Bengaluru police on charges of drug trafficking.
While Roy completed his post graduate diploma in Information Technology from Bengaluru, the other three were pursuing Class 10 from open schooling, the official said.
"The four arrested persons were produced in the court on Tuesday," he added.
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UP: Three killed, one injured in road accident in Kannauj
Kannauj (UP), Mar 11 (PTI): Three people were killed and one person was injured in an accident involving a tractor trolley and two motorcycles on the national highway here, police said on Wednesday.
The incident took place on National Highway 24 near Atara village at around 11 pm on Tuesday.
According to Sadar Kotwali Station House Officer Jitendra Pratap Singh, a farmer from Mawai village was returning home on a tractor-trolley when it collided with a motorcycle near Atara village in Jalalpur Panwara area.
The impact of the collision was so severe that it threw the two riders onto the road, killing them on the spot. The deceased have been identified as Mohammad Ahad (20) and Arbaaz (16), both residents of Inayatpur village.
A man identified as Raju, a resident of Mawai village, was also injured in the accident and was admitted to the district hospital.
After the collision, the tractor driver lost control of the vehicle, which overturned onto another motorcycle, killing its rider Amit (36), a resident of Chhibramau, on the spot.
The bodies have been sent for post-mortem, police said.
