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Wednesday, Jun 07, 2006

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`Ganja supplier' to prisoners nabbed

Staff Reporter

Held earlier on chain-snatching charge

HYDERABAD: He throws the ball perfectly, not in a game of cricket, but to smuggle `ganja' to his friends in jail! The Saifabad police on Monday took into custody a chain snatcher who reportedly adopted a peculiar modus operandi of smuggling ganja to his friends in jail by concealing them in rubber balls.

The crime party kept vigil on the accused who was earlier arrested on charge of snatching chains from people on Necklace road. Policemen grew suspicious on seeing him near the Chanchalguda jail on Monday. When grilled, he said he came there to meet his friends, who were in jail, during `Mulakaat' -- the process of visitors meeting inmates of the jail.

Sleuths stunned

Sleuths were about to set him free when they found three balls made of rubber in his clothes. Initially, he said he was carrying them casually but on persistent questioning he revealed the reason, which stunned the detectives. "He said he cut the rubber balls using a blade, stuffed ganja inside and hurled them into the jail," an officer associated with the investigation said.

The snatcher had fairly good idea as to which barracks his friends were in since he was earlier lodged in that jail and used to throw the balls close to those barracks. "His friends would later pick up them and consume the ganja," the police said.

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