LUCKNOW, June 14 -- The Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) and the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) uncovered a sophisticated interstate drug trafficking network that allegedly exploited the cargo and courier system to move narcotics across states. A suspected trafficker was arrested and 123 kg of ganja valued at around Rs.30 lakh was seized, senior STF officials said on Sunday.

The accused, identified as Prem Chandra Maurya, a resident of Azamgarh district, was arrested on Saturday from the TCI Express courier warehouse in Paramanandpur under Rohania police station limits of Varanasi, officials said.

According to investigators, the network had developed a clandestine supply chain linking Assam with eastern Uttar Pradesh, using courie...