Nedumkandam: Two ganja peddlers trying to flee from the cops was so unlucky that they set foot in a police station inadvertently! Their interrogation soon led the police to two of their accomplices.
All the four have been booked. The arrested are Vineeth, 20, of Adimali; Adarsh, 18, of Kochumadath Ernakulam; Sabin Rahman of Islam Nagar, Adimali, 22; and their 17-year-old accomplice.
Their arrest followed a vehicle check at Kambamettu, close to the Kerala-Tamil Nadu border, In Idukki district on Thursday afternoon. Officials of the police, excise and sales tax departments who were engaged in the inspection intercepted a bike which tried to cross the border despite being signaled to stop by the Tamil Nadu police on the other side of the border.
While trying to dodge the inspection wing officials, the bike went out of control and skidded. Vineeth and the 17-year-old who fled from the spot, but entered the Kambamettu police station premises mistaking it for a resort!
Finding the youths entering the station in a huff, the policemen there questioned them. The cops found that they were the same youth who had crossed the border check post dodging the Tamil Nadu police and about whom information was received at the police station a short while ago.
Based on the information gathered from the duo, the police took the other two too into custody along with 3 kg of ganja.
Subsequently a mahassar (site map and scene) was prepared by the cops in the presence of Udumbanchola Tahsildar K S Joseph.
Kambamettu CI G Sunilkumar, SI Chacko, Sulekha , Madhu, Haridas, police officials Jayesh, R Binumol, Rajesh, Sreeja, Rajeshmon, Shameer, Rex, excise officials C R Satheesh, Cyril Joseph, Shabin Mathew, sales tax driver Jijo Mathew were in the team which caught the gang of ganja peddlers.
