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The security and investigation agencies have achieved a major success at Lal Bahadur Shastri International Airport (Bawatpur Airport) located in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. On Saturday, a joint team of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) and the Customs Department busted a big international drugs racket and recovered a huge quantity of ‘Hydroponic Ganja’ from two air passengers coming from Bangkok. According to officials, the total weight of this high-tech ganja seized is about 20 kg, whose price in the international black market is around Rs. Rs 22 crore Has been estimated.
Smugglers had reached Varanasi by Air India plane, residents of Ujjain
According to information received from top officials of Customs and DRI, both the arrested international smugglers had reached Varanasi by flying from Bangkok on Air India Express flight number IX-215. After landing at the airport, when they were moving towards immigration and custom clearance, security agencies stopped them on the basis of intelligence input and suspicion.
When their luggage (trolley bag and handbag) was thoroughly searched, 20 kg of valuable ganja hidden inside was recovered. The arrested accused have been identified as Shehnaz and Yusuf, who are originally residents of Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh.
Delivery was to be given in Varanasi, then plan was to run away to Mumbai.
During the primary interrogation and investigation, the accused have made very shocking revelations. He told that he had landed at Varanasi airport with this huge consignment from Bangkok. Here outside the airport he had to hand over the goods to an unknown local receiver (person). Soon after this, both the smugglers had planned to escape from Varanasi to Mumbai, where they were going to meet other bosses of this network. At present, DRI has completely confiscated the recovered drugs and has registered a case against both the accused under serious sections under the Customs Act and sent them to jail.
What is ‘hydroponic ganja’ and why is it many times more intoxicating than normal ganja?
After this big recovery, everyone is curious to know what is hydroponic ganja that is sold at such a high price. According to custom experts and agricultural scientists:
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Cultivation without soil: Soil is not traditionally used to grow hydroponic marijuana. It is grown in a controlled environment inside completely closed rooms (in-door) with the help of only water and chemical solution containing special nutrients (minerals).
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Highly addictive (High THC): Due to this high-tech agricultural technology, plant growth occurs very fast. The most important thing is that the level of ‘THC’ (intoxicating element) in the ganja prepared by this method is many times higher and more lethal than the ganja grown in normal fields.
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Price sky high: Due to this extremely strong intoxication and international network, its price is hundreds of times more than normal ganja, which is considered to be the first choice of the rich class and rave parties.
Cartridge shells found in merchant navy personnel’s bag; There was chaos at the airport
This was not the only security related incident at Babatpur Airport. Just a day before this, on Friday afternoon, there was panic at the domestic terminal of the airport when three empty shells of .32 bore cartridges were recovered from the handbag of a passenger going to Delhi. Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel caught this suspicious object during luggage scanning.
The arrested youth is a resident of Singramau police station area of Jaunpur district of Uttar Pradesh and by profession he is working as a fitter in the Merchant Navy. He had to go to Delhi by Indigo Airlines flight. After collecting the boarding pass, as soon as he reached the security hold area for checking, the soldiers recovered the shells from his bag and immediately canceled his journey. The security agencies interrogated the young man rigorously for about three hours at the airport police post. Ultimately, after finding no terrorist or criminal links and the youth admitting that he had accidentally left the cartridges in the bag, the police made him write an apology (bond) late in the evening and released him.
