Subarnapur — The District Excise Department has managed to arrest five ganja smugglers near Kunja Chhak in Sonepur. On receiving information from a source, the Excise Department, while conducting an investigation on the Sonepur-Boudh near Telnadi road, stopped a Mahindra Scorpio vehicle No. OD-15 AA-6331 coming from the Boudh side and seized 50 kg of ganja in 2 polythin bags and 5 persons in the vehicle at Karimganj, Assam. Mahfuz Husen (24), Manoj Sahu (28) of Bheden police station area of Bargarh district , Satyananda Behera (31) of Turla under Jharband police station, Jothika Das (25) of Jharsuguda town police station and Jitendra Patel (28) of Kimira, Laikera police station have been arrested by the excise department.Under the direction of Subarnapur Excise Superintendent Mr.Prabir Kumar Samal, in this raid, under the leadership of Excise Inspector Prakash Sa, and others staff of the department conducted a raid near Kunja Chhak yesterday and later arrested the accused. However, the accused were informed by the excise department that the court was run on Thursday. Report – Ugrasen Karmi.