Rats ‘Ate’ 500 Kg Of Weed, Say UP Cops As Court Asks For Seized Drug: Report

New Delhi: In a report submitted by Mathura Police to a particular Narcotic Medicine and Psychotropic Substances Act (1985) courtroom, the cops made a weird declare that rats “ate” over 500 kilograms of marijuana, seized and saved within the warehouses of Shergarh and Freeway Police stations, the Instances of India reported. The response by Mathura Police got here when the courtroom had requested earlier this yr to provide the marijuana recovered beneath the NDPS Act. 

Responding to the declare, the extra district choose first ordered Mathura Senior Superintendent of Police Abhishek Yadav to do away with the “mice menace” after which produce proof that the rodents truly consumed 581 kilograms of marijuana, value Rupees 60 lakh, the report added. 

The courtroom has additionally issued five-point instructions for the public sale/disposal of weed saved in police warehouses. “Time-bound motion might be taken in compliance with the courtroom orders,” mentioned appearing senior superintendent of police (SSP), Mathura, Martand P Singh, said the TOI report. 

“The SHOs of Shergarh and Freeway police stations have claimed that 581 kg of weed saved in warehouses was destroyed by the rats. The cops have been discovering it unattainable to guard substances stored within the mentioned storage areas. The courtroom has ordered the police to provide proof relating to the declare and set November 26 as the subsequent listening to date,” mentioned the particular public prosecutor Ranveer Singh. 

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In its order dated November 18, the courtroom referred to a case beneath Freeway police station by which 195 kgs of recovered weed was destroyed by rats, as knowledgeable by authorities counsel to the courtroom. In its clarification, the Mathura police mentioned, “Being small in dimension, rats haven’t any concern of the police. SHOs can’t be specialists in fixing each downside.”

In Might 2020, three males smuggling weed in a truck had been arrested in Mathura. The truck was intercepted close to Jatwari village within the Shergarh space and 386 kg of weed hidden in millet baggage was recovered from the car. The three accused had been booked beneath the NDPS Act and despatched to judicial custody.