Of late, the Commissionerate police which have launched a crackdown on the illegal drugs trade, on Friday carried out multiple raids in and around the city and nabbed 12 drugs peddlers.
Police besides nabbing the drug peddlers seized contraband, cash, motorcycles and mobile phones during the raid.
Five cases were registered under the Jatni, Chandaka, Kharvel Nagar and Khandagiri police stations in the connection, police said.
The arrestees were identified as Aju Nayak, Sukanta Nayak, Goutam Behera, Rajesh Pattnaik, Pritam Das , Jayakrushana Pradhan, Lokesh Pal, Siba Shankar Behera , SK Nurudin, Arjuna Pradhan, Hemanta Kumar Mahalik and Ramakanta Jena.
Several grams of brown sugar, around 11 kg of ganja, four motorcycles, three mobile phones, and more than Rs 50,000, in cash were seized from the possession of the arrestees.
Such crackdowns would be conducted regularly to curb and detect the unabated flow of contraband into the city and its periphery, police said.