Kasargod: Police arrest inter-state ganja kingpin
Stephan Kayyar
Daijiworld Media Network – Kasargod (EP)
Kasargod, Jan 30: Kasargod police on Thursday January 30 arrested the kingpin behind the supply of a large amount of ganja to various states and districts including Kasargod.
The arrested person is identified as Idukki resident Shaji Mon alias P Suresh (42). He was arrested by a special police squad in Idukki.
More than fifteen cases of ganja supply are registered against him, say the police.
Police also said that he has supplied four quintals of ganja in Kasargod alone during the last one year.
He is said to be supplying ganja from Andhra Pradesh to various places and is said to be the kingpin of ganja trade in the district.
Shaji’s accomplice was earlier arrested with 110 kg of ganja at Bevinje.
Police said that Shaji used to transport ganja in stolen vehicles to various places including Kasargod. He knows Malayalam, Telugu and Tamil and is known by different names in different places.