Indian police blame rats for missing haul of marijuana

MUMBAI: Indian police came up with a novel explanation for a missing haul of marijuana yesterday — rats.

A senior officer blamed the furry rodents for the disappearance of a haul of drugs from a warehouse at Nagpur railway station in the western state of Maharashtra.

“Ratsareahugemenacehere,they keep nibbling at plastic wrappers containing marijuana and alcohol bottles,” Abhay Panhekar, a senior inspector at India’s railway police, told AFP.

Panhekar said illegal stashes of cannabis and bootleg liquor had been piling up in the warehouse over the last decade as officers cracked down on smugglers.

They are not allowed to destroy seized narcotics without a court order, he claimed. — AFP