Panaji: The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has busted a drug syndicate with the arrest of two males in Goa following the seizure of charas value Rs 9 lakh, officers stated on Wednesday. Both the accused are natives of Kerala and so they had sourced the medication from Himachal Pradesh, they stated.

One of the accused was nabbed on August 19 at Thivim railway station in North Goa, the NCB and the Railway Protection Force (RPF) stated in a launch.

The man was recognized as TKT. During his search, 883.64 grams of charas value Rs 9 lakh was seized.

During his interrogation, the accused instructed the investigators that he labored for a charas trafficking community being operated by a couple of Keralites in North Goa who used to obtain the medication from Kullu, Himachal Pradesh recurrently, it stated.

Based on info shared by him, the NCB arrested the principle handler, recognized as I B, from Keri Beach in North Goa on the identical day, the anti-drug company stated.

Efforts had been on to determine and apprehend different members of this drug syndicate, it added.