Summary:
Kolkata: The Special Task Force (STF) of Kolkata Police recovered 20 kg charas from a posh apartment at Joka on Diamond Harbour Road and arrested three persons who had plans to smuggle the stuff to China in the wee hours on Sunday. They used to keep charas inside date palm packets and used to smuggle it from from India to China," a senior STF official said. The sleuths had source information regarding Zakir's involvement in charas smuggling and he was the first among the three who was intercepted. The police interrogated him and accordingly raided the Joka apartment from where two of his associates were nabbed. The three would buy date palm and cut it with a knife to extract its seeds..