Overview

• Four suspects, including a juvenile, were apprehended on June 25 for attempting to deliver 1.4 kg of ganja worth ₹1.4 lakh into Colvale Central Jail
• Officials say the contraband was bundled into seven packets and hurled over the more than 10-metre-high perimeter wall during the early hours of June 14
• Prison sentry Prashat Naik discovered the ganja bundles in the inner corridor between watchtowers, triggering a swift police probe
• The accused—Gautam Talwar, Samuel Pujari, Jaffer Mulla and an unnamed minor—have been booked under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act
• Opposition leader Yuri Alemão has faulted the state government for failing to curb drug penetration inside Goa’s correctional facilities