22 kg ganja seized at Kolkata airport, four arrested
Kolkata, July 11 : The Narcotics Control Bureau's Kolkata wing on Tuesday busted an inter-state drug syndicate arresting four persons, including a Go Air employee, from the airport here and seized 22 kgs of ganja from them, a senior NCB official said.
The ganja was sourced from Odisha and was destined to the Andaman Islands.
"Three persons, named Mithu Roy, 34, Trishna Biswas, 38 and Gopal Nayak, 25, were initially arrested with 22 kgs of ganja from the NSCBI Airport here on Tuesday. The accused were trying to smuggle the ganja to Andaman," NCB Kolkata Zonal Director Dilip Kumar Srivastava said in a release.
"Upon interrogating Nayak, a Go Air airlines employee named Sunny Hela, 26, was also arrested in the case," he said.
The official said Hela, who worked with Go Air and JP Associates, used to facilitate the trafficking by providing the smugglers with 'X-Ray checked' tags to the traffickers beforehand at the airport.
"With the help of the tags the traffickers could escape the X-Ray scanning of the contraband," he added.
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Veteran Bengali actor Manoj Mitra hospitalised, condition 'critical'
Kolkata (PTI): Veteran Bengali actor and eminent theatre personality Manoj Mitra has been hospitalised with old age-related ailments and his condition is “very critical”, officials of the medical facility said.
The octogenarian was admitted to hospital with breathing trouble, sodium- potassium imbalance among other health issues, they said.
“Mr Mitra’s condition is very critical. He is under observation,” one of the doctors treating him told PTI on Sunday evening.
Famous for his stellar performances in films like Tapan Sinha's ‘Banchharamer Bagan’, Mitra has also acted in legendary director Satyajit Ray’s classics ‘Ghare Baire’ and ‘Ganashatru’.
Mitra, 85, also featured in films of eminent directors Buddhadeb Dasgupta, Basu Chatterjee, Tarun Majumdar, Shakti Samanta and Goutam Ghose.
He has written over 100 plays.
Among several accolades, the thespian won the Sangeet Natak Akademy Award for Best Playwright in 1985.
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