Three individuals have been sentenced to one year of rigorous imprisonment and fined Rs 10,000 each by a Thane court for possessing 1.2 kilograms of Afghan-origin charas worth Rs 18 lakh.

Jigani police have busted an inter-State drug racket and arrested a gang of six persons selling charas-laced chocolates to their customers, mostly paan shop owners, in and around Bengaluru.