Ganja smuggler’s property fridge worth Rs 50 lakh
Jashpur. Police have taken major action against marijuana smuggler Rohit Yadav. Property worth Rs 50.64 lakh acquired through marijuana smuggling has been frozen by the police. Through the SFEMA Court in Mumbai, the police froze the accused’s property. Operation Aatraach by Jashpur Police against drug dealers in the district continues. While the police are arresting the accused along with drugs, they are also identifying habitual offenders dealing in narcotics like marijuana and freezing their illegally earned property.
In this sequence, Jashpur Police, on the orders of the Competent Authority and Administrator Court (SFEMA), seized and froze property worth more than Rs 50 lakh, including a house and a car, illegally earned through marijuana smuggling, belonging to notorious marijuana smuggler Rohit Yadav, a resident of village Jam Jhor under the Kotba outpost. It is known that on 6.11.21, on the information of an informer, 20.570 kg of illegal narcotic substance Ganja was seized from the possession of notorious smuggler Rohit Yadav and his associates by the Kotba police post, and a case under 20(B) NDPS was registered against them at the Kotba post, they were arrested and sent to jail on judicial remand. Notorious Ganja smuggler Rohit Yadav is a habitual Ganja smuggler, in the year 2013 also, in the case of smuggling of 13 kg Ganja at the Kotba post, the police had taken action against him under 20(B) NDPS and arrested him and sent him to jail on judicial remand.
Rohit Yadav was also caught by the City Kotwali Ambikapur police in 2017 while smuggling 23.630 kg of ganja and in 2023 with 82 kg of ganja. A case was registered against him under Section 20(B) of the NDPS Act and he was sent to jail on judicial remand. The said case is pending in court. Despite repeated police action, smuggler Rohit Yadav did not give up smuggling ganja; he had made ganja smuggling his business. Rohit Yadav had illegally acquired property worth lakhs through ganja smuggling, while acquiring the said property through his ancestral work seemed irrelevant.
