THE regional police chief assembled a crack squad of 23 policemen, armed them with sub-machine guns, and dispatched them into a hilly valley where notorious bhang growers had thriving farms.
In theory, bhang business was a money spinner. A good Samaritan had tipped off Kuruya police that three underworld kingpins owned large bhang farms on steep, hidden valleys in a chain of hills.
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