One accused dies while cops drag filing of ganja case chargesheet for 3.5 years

IN yet another instance of the Chennai police messing up a ganja case investigation leading to an acquittal, a city trial court has now found that the police filed the chargesheet in a case three-and-a-half years after filing the FIR.

-  SIDDHARTH PRABHAKAR

By that time, one of the accused had already died.

On Saturday, the Principal Special Court under the Essential Commodities and Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, acquitted S Manjula in a 1.3-kg ganja recovery case filed by Adambakkam police in August 2019. Police had also arrested E Seenivasan alleging that the duo were found in possession of the contraband and were selling it in an auto.