UP STF issues lookout for other members of the gang
The Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (UP STF) busted an international gang of drug peddlers and arrested four persons from the Ayodhya district. The police also recovered 16.5 kg of charas (hashish) from them and seized the car that was being used for transporting drugs.
According to Satyasen Yadav, additional superintendent of police (ASP), STF, the gang was active into the drug trade for the past several years.
All four were arrested on Monday near Itaura Darshan Nagar crossing under Purakalandar police station of Ayodhya when they were on their way to Kanpur by a four-wheeler.
The arrested have been identified as Vimal Rajput, Jitendra, Ashish Yadav, and Yogendra Singh Yadav, all residents of Kanpur.
During interrogation, the STF came to know that the gang had been supplying drugs to one Manoj Tewari in Kanpur for the past several years.
The STF is on the lookout for other members of the gang.
[With Inputs from IANS]
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ATS is congratulated on these arrests….