SUBARNAPUR — Subarnapur district Binika police get big success: Binika police have arrested 8 absconding ganja mafia members who were absconding for a long month and 4 days and produced them in court. Along with this, two cars used by the mafia, 8 mobiles and cash of Rs. 10,000 have been seized. The incident revealed that these eight ganja mafia members were travelling in two luxury cars with Jharkhand registration numbers JH – 02 BH-1007 and JH – 05 BF-5321, when they were transporting ganja from Boudh district. The police, after receiving information from a reliable source, rammed into the vehicle yesterday. In these two cars, five ganja mafia members Ranjit Kumar Verma (34), Prem Kumar Gupta (52), Bablu Kumar (25), Avinash Kumar (25), Chandeshwar Prasad (33) from Palamu district of Jharkhand state and Nibesh Sahu (31) from Baunshuni village in Boudh district, Bablu Khatua (28) from Tilapanga village under Manamunda police station and Jitendra Katual (24) from the said village were involved in this case. The police have arrested 8 ganja mafia members and produced them in court yesterday. Along with this, 8 mobile phones used by mafia and Rs. 10,000 in cash have been seized. It is worth mentioning that on the early morning of September 6, an unregistered car speeding past the Binika police station got hit by a car with no registration number and the front wheel burst near Nuan Bazaar in Binika town. The ganja mafia poured petrol on the vehicle filled with ganja and lit a match and fled the scene. As a result, the vehicle caught fire and the locals immediately called the fire brigade, who rushed to the spot and extinguished the fire, averting a major incident. The ganja was weighed in the presence of Binika Additional Tehsildar and Magistrate Dayaram Meher. After 3 quintals of 31 kg of ganja was recovered from it, the police seized the half burned car along with the said ganja and registered a case under Binika Police Station Case No. 179 dated 6/9/2025 and continued the investigation into the incident.
Binika police get big success: 8 absconding ganja mafia arrested: 8 mobiles and cash of Rs. 10,000 seized.
