Hindu Ants Celebrate 420 with 50 Pounds of Hash?
April 20th marked National Weed Day, a US-based pseudo holiday celebrated by America’s vast underground legion of pot/cannabis smokers. Although 420, as it’s more commonly known, is primarily a US holiday, the tiny ants of India apparently took notice, as they were recently indicted on charges of eating hash.
Well, not exactly. The story is a bit more complicated, but let’s start at the Bombay High Court, which has the power of appellate jurisdiction over the Indian states of Daman, Diu, Goa and Maharashtra. Earlier this month, several Goa narcotics officers were brought in front of the court (which lies in Mumbai, Maharashtra) to face charges of negligence.
24kg (52lbs) of charas—hand-made hashish popular in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal and India—was discovered missing from the Goa police headquarters. The officers in question claim that white ants ate it.
Obviously, the story is a farce. Goa’s ingeniously conniving anti-narcotics cell (ANC) is using the ant story as a front, albeit a creative one, to hide the real reason why recently seized drugs have been popping right back up in the black market. More than likely, the officers are seizing the drugs and then reselling them back to India’s notorious drug lords.
This makes perfect sense, especially considering the wide array of controversy currently circulating around the GOA. For one, police inspector Ashish Shirodkar, who according to Press Trust of India (PTI) is “attached to [the] ANC,” was arrested a month earlier on charges of supplying drugs to an Israeli drug dealer known as Atala. Plus Atala, who is pictured in the hidden-camera picture below, claimed that the entire ANC is on the take.
Home Minister Ravi Naik has apparently had enough, as he recently told the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency, “We have to get to the bottom of this.” Justice is justice—is it not? He added, “All the police in-charges who headed the anti-narcotic cell during the last decade will have to be probed thoroughly.”
Someone finally sees the truth! Mind you, that Ravi Naik took a stand comes as a shock, what with his history of straight-up denial:
By V Saxena on 22-04-2010
V Saxena
