LUCKNOW, Sept. 26 -- A court in Uttar Pradesh's Firozabad district has sentenced nine people to between 10 and 20 years in prison for their involvement in the trafficking of 441 kg of ganja seized from a truck in November 2021, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) said in a press release on Saturday.

The additional district and sessions judge, Firozabad, sentenced the nine accused on September 25. The alleged kingpin, Yashpal Singh of Aligarh, got the maximum punishment of 20 years' rigorous imprisonment (RI) and a Rs.2 lakh fine, according to the NCB Lucknow zonal unit.

Two other accused-Vivek of Hathras and Shishupal of Aligarh-were sentenced to 15 years' RI and fined Rs.2 lakh each. The remaining six were sentenced to 10 years' RI and ...