Kanpur: Pheelkhana police and the Crime Branch arrested two accused with 1.58 kg of charas for allegedly smuggling the narcotic into the city by hiding it in water bottles, with ghee on top and charas at the bottom, in the style of a famous movie.ADCP (SOG) Sumit Sudhakar Ramteke and ACP (collectorganj) Anand Ojha said the Crime Branch arrested the two accused with 1.58 kg of charas. The arrested accused included Naushad Qureshi from the Gorakhpur Kotwali police station area and Aashu Nigam in Pheelkhana.The ADCP said Naushad had bought charas from Nepal and brought it to the city via the Bihar and Gorakhpur route by Roadways bus, then made small packets and supplied them. He said Naushad, influenced by the movie, smuggled narcotics into the city in different ways following the same style.He said this time Naushad brought 1.58 kg of charas in four packets in the lower part of a water bottle with ghee in the upper part, and was arrested.Police said Aashu Nigam earlier went to jail from Kotwali in a charas case.
