Odisha STF Seizes Brown Sugar From Cuttack Hotel, Two Arrested | OTV News

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Cuttack: A crew of Special Task Force (STF) of Crime Branch arrested a lodge proprietor and its worker in Ankula close to Athgarh on outdated Cuttack-Sambalpur highway after seizing 175 grams of brown sugar from their possession.
The approximate market worth of the contraband recovered is estimated to be over Rs 7 Lakh.
It is worth it to say right here that, the Odisha Police has intensified its drive to crackdown in opposition to narcotics commerce within the State. The Excise division had arrested a girl throughout raid at one of many hideouts of a infamous smuggler in Palasuni space on February 17, 2021 and seized Brown Sugar weighing 185 Grams from her.
Similarly, two drug peddlers had been arrested at Panikoili in Jajpur on February 15, 2021 after 10 gram of brown sugar value Rs 1 Lakh was seized from their possession.
During interrogation, the 2 drug peddlers admitted that they procured the brown sugar from Balasore and deliberate to promote it in Jajpur.
(Edited By Rashmi Ranjan Mohanty)