Six arrested with brown sugar value greater than Rs 1 crore in Odisha

By Express News Service

CUTTACK: Continuing its crackdown in opposition to the unlawful drug commerce, the Commissionerate of Police on Monday arrested six individuals and seized over one kg of brown sugar value greater than Rs 1 crore from their possession.

While 4 of the six arrested individuals belonged to Jagatsinghpur district, one was from Cuttack and one other from Puri district.

Acting on particular intelligence inputs about assembling of some drug peddlers in the back of RNT School for supplying the contraband to native sellers, a staff of police officers with the assistance of the Special Squad raided the spot and apprehended the six accused individuals with two bikes.

Police additionally seized six polythene pockets containing 1.159 kg of brown sugar value round Rs 1,10,59,000 from their possession.

Briefing mediapersons, Commissioner of Police Soumendra Priyadarshi stated the arrested individuals are routine drug suppliers indulged in procuring the narcotic substance from Balasore and supplying it to native sellers in Puri, Cuttack, Khurda, Kendrapara and Jagatsinghpur districts.

The Cuttack Urban Police District has to this point seized greater than 4.28 kg of brown sugar and 677 kg ganja and arrested 39 drug peddlers from Cuttack, Khurda, Jagatsinghpur, Puri, Jaleswar and Balasore through the particular drive this yr, knowledgeable Priyadarshi.

He appealed to folks to tell the Commissionerate of Police in regards to the sale of medicine of their localities.