Three men who decided to peddle drugs they found rather than report it to police were arrested on Friday in Surat in Gujarat allegedly with 8.31 kilograms of charas worth Rs 4.15 crore, an official said.
Two of the accused had found the contraband in eight packets on Hazira beach here a month ago and had given some part of it to the third accused to sell to addicts, Surat police commissioner Ajay Tomar said.
He identified the accused as Pinkesh Patel (26) of Hazira village, Abhishek Patel (26) of Jahangirpura here and their common friend Jatin Bhagat (26), a resident of Rander.