Nagpur: The Crime Branch of Nagpur Police arrested a Sub-Inspector with Railway Protection Force (RPF) attached to Nagpur Division of South East Central Railway (SECR) on drug smuggling charges. Cops seized 6 kg of Ganja from his house. RPF SI Ramsingh Meena was part of an inter-state drug smuggling racket, police said.
Apart from Meena (30), a resident of Shanti Nagar, the police have arrested Arun Rajkumar Thakur (28), a resident of Katol; Abhishek Lalit Pandey (19), a resident of Ward No. 2, Isasani Road, CRPF camp; Vijay alias Bunty Gupta (30), a resident of Mehandi Bagh; Lawlesh alias Kush Mali (23), a resident of Jagnath Budhwari Road.
Accused Suraj Tiwari, a resident of Fetri, near Kalmeshwar and Aman alias Goldy Ganveer, a resident of Hudkeshwar are absconding in the case registered at Hudkeshwar police station under provisions of NDPS Act.
The Crime Branch swung into action after an audio clip conversation of two criminals went viral on social media. Two accused are sons of policemen. Abhishek Pandey’s father was working with Central Reserve Police Force while Kush Mali’s father is attached to the headquarters of Nagpur police. Abhishek was smuggling ganja under the guise of event management and catering services.
The gang was smuggling ganja from Sambalpur, Odisha. The police have booked Mohd Imran, a drug peddler from Sambalpur, in the case and probing the role of RPF PSI Meena. The investigators are suspecting that he was allowing the accused to smuggle heady stuff in trains. Recently, Abhishek was arrested by the police when he was transporting ganja in a car. Two girls were also found in his car.
The arrest was made by PI Manoj Sidam, API Suraj Suroshe, API Badrinarayan Tambe, PSI Balram Zadokar, ASI Rajendrasingh Baghel and staff including Namdeo Takam, Sunil Ingale, Pradip Pawar, Smadhan Geete, Rajesh Deshmukh, Pramod Dhote,Vinod Gaikwad, Nitin Salunkhe, Suhas Singne, Kapilkumar Tandekar, Sahdeo Chikhale, Rahul Patil, Rubina Sheikh and others under the guidance of DCP Detection Chinmay Pandit.
