According to the BBC:
"Rats are tiny animals and they have no fear of the police. It's difficult
to protect the drug from them," a court in Uttar Pradesh state has said.
The court had asked the police to produce the stash as evidence in cases of
drug peddling.
Rats
Rats in India have been blamed for eating 200kg of cannabis that had been seized from dealers and kept at a police station.
By PA/TPN, in Asia, World · 01 Dec 2022, 16:01 · 1 Comments
I read about this on Greek Reporter, 24/11/2022, in “Rats eat 200kgs of Cannabis”-“Rats are tiny animals and they have no fear of the police. It’s difficult to protect the drug from them.” Oh, the rascals, lol “However, in a plot twist, a senior Mathura district police official said that some of the missing cannabis had been ‘damaged due to heavy rains,’ and was not actually touched by mice or rats. (…) The judge maintained that the only way to protect the seized goods from “such fearless mice” was to auction the drugs to research labs and medicine firms. The proceeds would go to the government. More recently, police in India filed a report in another case involving 386 kilograms of the drug. They reported that a portion of the cannabis had been “eaten up by the rats.” In 2018, eight Argentinian police officers were fired after they blamed mice for the disappearance of half a ton of cannabis from a police warehouse. Experts, however, disputed the claim, sighting the animals were unlikely to confuse the drug for food, and “if a large group of mice had eaten it, a lot of corpses would have been found in the warehouse.” In a study published in 2019, when laboratory rats were given cannabis-laced dough, they “tended to become less active and their body temperature also…[decreased].””-So poor mice probably got none; the police officers took some and blamed it on the mice. Nice “Truth massage”.
By guida from Lisbon on 02 Dec 2022, 05:38