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Poetic justice as man freed after shoddy probe gets 12-yr jail in another drug case

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May 18, 2024

Vegetable seller-turned-peddler convicted after he was acquitted by trial court 7 years ago

- SIDDHARTH PRABHAKAR

Poetic justice as man freed after shoddy probe gets 12-yr jail in another drug case

THE proverbial long arm of the law has eventually caught up with Virugambakkam-based vegetable seller-turned-ganja peddler L Ravi (64).

Seven-and-a-half years after a trial court acquitted him in a ganja case, the investigation of which was messed up by Chennai police, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) managed to secure a 12-year sentence for Ravi and three others on May 9 in another case filed in 2019.

Ravi and four others were acquitted in December 2016 after the Choolaimedu police failed to prove his role in the seizure of 60 kg ganja, with the trial court picking up holes in the documentation of the investigation procedures.

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