The Ratlam police have arrested a mother-son duo who were making youths addicted of drugs by selling illegal drugs (brown sugar), police have seized 505 gm of brown sugar worth about Rs 50 lakh from the accused.
On the initiative of Superintendent of Police, Ratlam Siddharth Bahuguna, a special campaign is being run in the district to strictly curb illegal purchase, sale and transportation of drugs.
Station Road Ratlam Police received information from the informer that a woman and a boy were moving towards Indore with illegal drug brown sugar in a bus.
On information, under the guidance of Additional Superintendent of Police Sunil Patidar and City Superintendent of Police Hemant Chauhan, station in-charge Station Road Kishore Patanwala and his team, on the basis of information received from the informer, Mallika Khatoon of Akola Maharashtra and his son Afzal Khan (24) were traced and detained.
After duly frisking both of them, the police have recovered about 505 grams of brown sugar worth about fifty lakh rupees from them.
Legal action is being taken against both the accused by registering a case under the NDPS Act. Crime has been registered against the accused Afzal and his mother under the NDPS Act in the past also.