1100 kg of cannabis inventory found

About one thousand one hundred kg of ganja seized in Erode district since 2019 has been inventoried and will be destroyed soon, said Deputy Superintendent of Police of the Prohibition Division, Shanmugam. He said: ganjas seized from various places in the district has been collected in the Erode District Police Office premises. An inventory of it is underway. For this, Bhavani JM 1 and one Erode JM 1 have been appointed to monitor this inventory. In their presence, all this cannabis will be inventoried and then handed over to the Prohibition Division. Then this information will be sent to the Coimbatore DIG and these cannabis bundles will be handed over to him on a specified day. 
Then, the cannabis in all the districts in this range, (Erode, Coimbatore, Tiruppur, Nilgiris)will be burned and destroyed. Once these cannabis items were seized from the places of the criminals involved, the nature of the item was examined and cases were registered. Based on that, these items have been collected and are now being destroyed.  The government plans to do this every year from now on. This action is being taken on the basis of a High Court order. The value of one kilogram of ganja is about Rs 30,000. The punishment for those who possess and sell ganja will be the same as for those who use ganja products. They will be sentenced to at least seven years in prison. Using it is also prohibited. Some actors have been arrested on that basis, he added.