Police blame rats for the disappearance of more than 500 kilos of marijuana

The event crosses the line of the unusual. The -at least- dubious episode took place in India: the Police of the city of Mathura reported that a group of mice ate the 581 kilos of marijuana which they had seized.

The drug, seized in various operations, was in the custody of the Rome authorities two different police stations but, in a “mysterious” way, It’s disappeared.

blame the rats

“Mice, despite being small animals, are not afraid of the police”said the agents before the city court, located in the state of Uttar Pradesh, according to local media reports.

In this way the local police tried to justify what happened absence of hemp which he had confiscated and should have been used as test in one case.

For its part, the justice explained that the police had been asked to supply 386 kilos of cannabis and indicated the guidelines to be followed with the rest of the drug seized.

But the indictment assured that in total more than 500 kilos of marijuana stored in various units in Mathura were affected by the rat invasion.

According to reports, at one of the stations, 195 kilos of cannabis they would have been eaten by rodents; while in another they disappeared 386 kilos which had been found in a smuggled van discovered in May 2020.

In this regard, the Shergarh station chief, one of the suspects, indicated that: “There is no safe place in the police station to store drugs and protect them from rats”.

And, according to the file, other testimony from officials added that: “There is a rat threat in almost every police station. Therefore, the necessary arrangements must be made to safeguard the cannabis that has been confiscated.”

doubts and contradictions

However, it stands out Cnnthe stories on the exact sequence of events that followed the alleged use of cannabis by the mice they get a little confusing.

It so happens that in statements after the trial, Mathura City Police Superintendent Martand Prakash Singh told the outlet that the drugs had been “destroyed by rains and floods” and not because of the rat invasion.

“There was no mention of rats in (report submitted to the court) (…). The police only said that the seized cannabis was destroyed by rains and floods,” the authority said.

“A bit ‘lazy”

Although for now the rats I am the sole culprits of the actapparently they will take it with a lot thrift.

Is that a study conducted in 2016 at the University of British Columbia found that the main psychoactive ingredient of marijuana made lab rats lazyindicates CNN.

For the research, the experts trained 29 rats to carry out an experiment where they had to choose between a simple task or a more difficult one to win a prize.

The rats chose the hardest and most rewarding task, but after receiving marijuana, the rats themselves chose the easier task.