Cuttack: Three arrested with brown sugar worth Rs 1 crore

Cuttack | Tuesday | 8th June, 2021

Summary:

Three people have been arrested for possessing 1.038 kg brown sugar worth Rs 1 crore in Cuttack, Odisha.

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Three people have been arrested for possessing 1.038 kg brown sugar worth Rs 1 crore in Cuttack, Odisha.

Police Commissioner Soumendra Priyadarshi said, "The arrested persons are drug smugglers.

We have seized a car, a motorcycle and 4 mobile phones from their possession.

Based on an intelligence input, the personnel of CDA-II police station, Cuttack set up check points to apprehend three drug peddlers coming towards CDA Cuttack via Madhusudan Setu on June 6.

While frisking vehicles, the police personnel detained three persons with one Yamaha R-15 Motor Cycle bearing registered no.

OD-01-Q-6978 and one TATA Indica Car bearing registered no.

OR-01-N-0160 suspecting their movement.

Upon a search of the vehicles, the police personnel recovered 1.038 kg brown sugar in 10 polythene packets were recovered.

The estimated value of the seized brown sugar is approximately Rs 1 crore.