CHANDIGARH: The crime branch has arrested a Kullu resident with 4.400 kg charas from city on Friday. The police have claimed that the seized charas has a market value of over Rs 10 lakh.According to the police, the accused, identified as Anoop Ram, 32, work as a taxi driver and smuggle charas from Himachal Pradesh regularly to Jammu and Chandigarh. He was also arrested in 2018 by the Mandi Police who had booked him under NDPS Act for possessing 886gm charas and spent 40 days in jail in January 2018.Sukhraj Katewa, deputy superintendent of police (DSP), crime, said that the accused is from Godighat village in Kullu.According to the DSP, the crime branch team had laid a naka near Mullanpur barrier and was checking vehicles on Friday at around noon. They had stopped the car that the accused was driving on suspicion. When they started to question the accused, he suddenly tried to flee with the vehicle. But, as the naka was fully barricaded, he was not able to escape. The police nabbed him. While searching his vehicle, the police recovered a white colour bag which held 4.400kg charas.DSP said that during interrogation, the accused had revealed that he was to deliver the drugs near bus stand at Sector 17.In the last six days, crime branch has arrested six drug peddlers with heroin, cocaine and opium from different parts of the city. The accused have been lodged in the Burail jail.

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