A 22-year-old man was apprehended in Goa’s Quepem for possessing suspected ganja valued at around Rs. 30,000. The Quepem Police, under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, have filed a case against the individual. The accused, identified as Zakir Pirzade, a local resident of Quepem, was found with approximately 297 grams of greenish leafy substance suspected to be ganja.
A police team, led by Police Sub-Inspector (PSI) Digamber Bondre, arrested the accused in the Nirmal Nagar area of Quepem in South Goa. Along with the suspected ganja, items including cash worth Rs. 20,000, a mobile phone, and a Fascino scooter, collectively valued at about Rs. 1,50,000, were seized from the individual. Following his arrest, Zakir Pirzade was presented before a Judicial Magistrate and remanded to three days of police custody for further investigation.
The police are currently interrogating the accused to determine the origin of the seized substances and any associated linkages. The investigation is ongoing under the supervision of various officials including PSI Digamber Bondre, PI Prashal Dessai, SDPO Quepem Ashish Shirodkar, and SP South Santosh Dessai. In a separate incident in February, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) provisionally attached immovable properties worth approximately Rs. 7.17 crore in Goa as part of a money laundering probe related to international narcotics trafficking.
