The Crime branch nabbed three miscreants and recovered three bags carrying drugs weighing 8.9 kg worth Rs 1 lakh from their possession near SunPalace hotel at Hoshangabad road on Wednesday.
Acting on a tip off, three miscreants were nabbed while they were trying of sell drugs. The miscreants were identified as Vinod Shivhare (26), Suraj alias Kallu (25) and Kapil alias Kamil Kuchbandiya (26).
Police said that when the nabbed miscreants were searched 4 kg of drugs were recovered from Vinod and Suraj each while 900 gm of drug was recovered from Kapil.
Vinod and Kapil are residents of city while Suraj hails from Gwalior.
During the investigation police found that the three brought the drugs from Gwalior to sell in the city. The involvement of accused in other areas in drug trafficking would be investigated.
They confessed that they would search for customers to sell the drugs but were nabbed before selling the drugs.
Meanwhile, a miscreant was nabbed on the charge of his involvement in placing bet on India Srilanka one day cricket match in Koh-e-Fiza area on Tuesday and recovered two mobile phones, one dairy and Rs 36000 cash were recovered from his possession.
Police said that acting on a tip a black coloured Swift bearing registration number MPO4CK8005 police team rushed to the spot and detained the miscreant while his aide managed to escape.
The miscreant was identified as Rahul Gupta (34) of lalghati and recovered two mobile phones from their possession.
The police have registered a case under section 4 A of the Gambling Act.