The Indian Express•Today at 07:56
Pune Crime Files | How 2 drums at secluded spot in Baramati led cops to an interstate drug syndicate
Three suspected members (faces blurred) of the inter-state drug racket arrested by the Pune rural police. (Photo Credit: Special Arrangement) In a major drug haul earlier this year, the Pune rural police quite literally stumbled upon 479 kilograms of marijuana concealed in 465 adhesive-taped packets and hidden inside two empty water drums abandoned on a secluded, uncultivated patch of land in Baramati. Suspecting that the consignment had been stockpiled to cater to the spike in demand during the Holi festival, the police launched a coordinated probe despite initially having no clues as to who had brought the marijuana there, where it came from, or who was meant to receive it.
