Cops foil bid to smuggle ganja into Colvale jail

Panaji: An FIR was filed against four persons, including a minor, for trying to smuggle ganja worth Rs 1.4 lakh into Colvale Central Jail.The incident occurred on June 14 when the accused individuals threw packets containing seven balls of ganja into the jail premises.

They were attempting to deliver the substance to the prisoners.

However, the packets were spotted by policemen.North Goa superintendent of police, Rahul Gupta, said that during the investigation, it was found that the accused individuals involved were Gautam Talwar, 24, and Samuel Pujari, 24, both residents of Ansabhat, Mapusa, and Jaffer Mulla, 24, of Khorlim, Mapusa.“The minor boy was produced before a member of the Juvenile Justice Board.

He was subsequently handed over to his parents with a direction that he be produced before the board at Merces on June 26,” said Gupta.The SP stated that the deputy superintendent of Colvale Central Jail reported that on June 14, sentry police constable Prashant Naik, at watchtower 3 within the jail premises, noticed seven ball-shaped objects wrapped in brown-coloured material.“They were thrown in the passage area of the inner cordon and outer cordon wall between watchtower 3 and 4,” the DySP reported.

Upon verification, it was found that all seven balls contained a substance suspected to be ganja, Gupta said.On Wednesday, police under Gupta, Mapusa sub-divisional police officer Wilson D’Souza, Colvale police inspector Sanjit Kandolkar, and staff of Colvale police station managed to nab the gang involved in delivering the contraband to the prisoners in Colvale Central Jail.