By Express News Service
KOLLAM: On World Environment Day on Saturday when everybody was busy planting saplings to mark the day, just a few people used the alternative to plant ganja saplings on the roadside in Kollam. Two hashish saplings had been recovered by the Kollam excise group on Monday from the aspect of a highway at Kandachira. The saplings had been planted as a part of World Environment Day. The excise group is looking out for the youths who had been concerned.
The saplings measuring 60cm and 30cm in peak had been discovered planted alongside the highway between Kurishadi junction in Kandachira and the bypass. A group led by excise particular squad sub-inspector T Rajeev discovered the saplings from the roadside.
An eyewitness tipped the division’s particular squad CI I Noushad off on World Environment Day morning that just a few people got here and planted these saplings there, and defended when confronted saying that they liked this plant. The witness additionally knowledgeable the excise squad {that a} man hooked on ganja had led a gaggle of kids to plant hashish. The males who planted the saplings informed native residents that permit these vegetation develop there in order that they might take selfies beside them, he stated.
An analogous tip-off was acquired by the group relating to the ganja vegetation seen beneath the Mangad bypass bridge. But nothing was recovered from the spot when the group reached there for inspection. However, the excise officer stated that there have been indicators that hashish was grown there earlier. The officer added that they acquired data that the vegetation had been owned by a resident of Kandachira concerned in a number of ganja circumstances.
Assistant excise commissioner B Suresh stated the group is monitoring down the culprits and they are going to be arrested quickly. “It seems certain gangs are trying out new methods as due to lockdown, they are unable to travel to other places to smuggle in the stuff,” he stated.
