Police have arrested two persons from Kotwali locality and seized ‘charas’ worth Rs 20 lakh from their possession, officials said here on Tuesday.
“Four kilograms of Charas worth Rs 20 lakh was seized from their possession. They used to bring the contraband from Nepal and sold it at higher rates here,” senior superintendent of police, Raipur, Arif Sheikh told reporters.
They were identified as Akash Agrawal and Sohel Khan. Khan was earlier arrested in a rape case registered with the Civil Lines police station last year, police said.
Agrawal was nabbed with charas pouches from a house located in Byron Bazaar neighbourhood of the city following a tip-off. During interrogation he told the police about the house located in Kachna were he had hidden charas in large quantity, police added.
At Kachna, police found more than three kg of charas and more than one kg charas was seized from Khan’s residence at Maoudhapara neighbourhood of the city. The contraband was kept in Khan’s car in which they used to sell it around the city, police said.
Police have booked the duo under Section 21B of the Narcotics Act.