PALAKKAD: The Excise Department has busted a group in Walayar that attempted to smuggle ganja into Kerala using a vehicle carrying fish. The Excise team conducted the drug bust based on a piece of secret information. About 150 kg of ganja in 100 packets was seized from the tempo van named CR7.

Excise officials have arrested two natives of Tamil Nadu in the incident. The accused were attempting to deliver these packets from Andhra to Kozhikode.