LUCKNOW, Nov. 10 -- : The Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) arrested an alleged interstate drug trafficker with 433.930 kg of ganja, estimated to be worth Rs.1.25 crore in the international market, near Bharatkund toll plaza on the Sultanpur-Ayodhya highway on Tuesday.

The accused, identified as Mohammad Irshad (35), a resident of Lohinga Kalan village in Haryana's Mewat, was travelling in a 14-wheeler truck when the STF intercepted him around 11.50am under the jurisdiction of Purakalandar police station in Ayodhya.

According to the STF, Irshad told investigators that he had transported peaches from Jalandhar to Angul in Odisha. After unloading the consignment, he parked the truck near a petrol pump on the instructions of its owner...