Four persons of Sundargarh were arrested and forwarded to court by police on Wednesday allegedly for illegal possession and trading of brown sugar. The police seized 8.5 grams of brown sugar worth about `1 lakh from their possession.
Sources said acting on a tipoff on Tuesday late night, the Sadar police here rushed to Kapsinga village and nabbed the four persons who were sitting near the Ib river and planning to sell brown sugar. The Sadar police seized 11 brown sugar packets from them. Police identified the arrested persons as Rinku Patel(24), Dologobinda Naik(50), Sudhansu Naik(46) and Ajit Oram(23), all residents of Sundargarh. The police said the four accused were also consuming brown sugar. During interrogation, the police came to know that they had link with brown sugar mafia in Cuttack. Further investigation is on.