Pune: Woman, 22, held for selling ganja, e-cigarettes from Viman Nagar jewellery shop

A 22-year-old woman has been arrested in Pune's upmarket Viman Nagar area for allegedly selling drugs and banned items from behind the front of a cosmetic jewellery shop. The Airport police busted the operation.

The arrested woman is Abhilasha Pankaj Ahirrao, 22, a resident of Viman Nagar. Police took her into custody and initiated legal action against her.

The case relates to a shop named "Cloud Cartel" in Viman Nagar, which operated from shop number 9. It was a cosmetic jewellery shop in name, but a black market was allegedly being run inside. She is accused of selling e-cigarettes, hookah in different flavours and even ganja from the shop.

Police constables Hariprasad Punde and Lalu Karhe of the Airport police station received a tip-off about it. Acting on the information, police raided the shop without warning on Tuesday.

During the search, banned hookah flavours, e-cigarettes and 130 gm of ganja were found inside the shop and in the storage compartment of a motorcycle parked outside. Police seized goods worth Rs 2,17,100 in all.

The investigation has found that the woman earlier ran a shop in the Deccan area. She later shut it down and began this business in Viman Nagar. The intoxicants were allegedly being supplied to employees of IT companies and young people.

Police have registered a case. They are now tracing the orders received on her phone and the entire supply chain, that is, where the goods came from and to whom they were passed on.