Gujarat: Three held in Surat for trying to sell charas worth Rs 4.15cr they found on the beach

Three men were arrested allegedly with 8.31 kilograms of charas worth Rs 4.15 crore for deciding to peddle drugs they found rather than report it to police on Friday in Surat in Gujarat, an official said.

Two of the accused had found the contraband in eight packets on Hazira beach in Surat a month ago and had given some part of it to the third accused to sell to addicts, Surat police commissioner Ajay Tomar said.

He identified the accused as Pinkesh Patel (26) of Hazira village, Abhishek Patel (26) of Jahangirpura here and their common friend Jatin Bhagat (26), a resident of Rander.

Police received a tip-off that a person in Rander area was selling high purity Afghan charas for the last 25 days, leading to the arrest of Bhagat, from whom 2.17 kilograms of charas worth Rs 1.08 crore was recovered, Tomar said.