Kasargod: Vidyanagar police have arrested another accused involved in the peddling of 4.9 kg ganja. With this, the number of arrested has gone up to three.

The arrested is Abdul Azeez (27), a resident of Seetangoli Choukar.

On November 29, during night vigilance the police recovered the ganja from a car that was parked in a suspicious manner by the side of a road at Seetangoli.

In connection with this, Faizal from AK Nagar and Abdul Rauf from Patla had been arrested while Azeez and Shabeer had managed to be at large. Azeez, now being nabbed, the hunt for Shabeer is on.