Rats Blamed for Missing Cannabis from Police Custody

To quote from a report out of India:

Police in the northern city of Mathura wrote to magistrates to say 581kg of the drugs had gone missing from two storerooms after the consignments were seized from traffickers more than five years ago.

Public prosecutor Ranveer Singh said the consignments were eaten by rodents and could not be produced.

“There is no place in the police station where the stored goods can be saved from the rats. The remaining [cannabis] from the huge consignment was destroyed by officers,” the prosecutors told the court.

Apparently, the judge hearing the case has now asked the police to “deliver proof” that the rats actually consumed the alleged quantity of cannabis.