Koraput: In a major success against drugs mafia, police in Odisha’s Koraput district arrested five notorious criminals and seized arms and ammunition as well as a huge quantity of ganja from them, police said on Wednesday.

Acting swiftly on a tip-off, a team from Padwa Police Station intercepted a Mahindra Bolero transporting ganja from Dokanput to Pottangi on Tuesday. ADVERTISEMENT

The police team spotted the target vehicle and signalled it to stop. Instead, the driver accelerated, triggering a high-speed chase. When the police halted the vehicle near Arlabput, five men jumped out and tried to flee into the forest. One of them also brandished a pistol.

However, the police apprehended all five suspects without injury and recovered the weapon.

Among the arrested was Lal Bahadur Darjee,

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