Lucknow, Dec 30 (IANS) Two men were Wednesday arrested with marijuana worth Rs.10 million (Rs.1 crore) in Uttar Pradesh’s Varanasi district, police said.
Pramod Kumar and Ram Shankar, both in their mid-30s, were arrested near Aasapur railway crossing in Varanasi, some 250 km from Lucknow.

“Acting on a tip-off, we carried out a joint operation with the special operation group (SOG) sleuths and nabbed the two. The two men were working for a Nepal-based drug peddling gang for the last four years,” police inspector Shiv Singh told reporters in Varanasi.

He said counterfeit currency notes of Rs.70,000 were also recovered from their possession.

“Kumar and Shankar have told us that their gang members in Nepal also used to give them the task of supplying fake currency notes in various regions of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand,” Singh said.