Acting on a tip-off, police conducted a raid on a residential house at Shekibad in the Jaleswar area and seized 50 gm of brown sugar worth of about Rs 5 lakh and a peddler early on Thursday morning.
A police team led by Sub-Divisional Police Officer (SDPO) Ankita Kumbhar conducted raids at around 4.30 am and made the seizure and the arrest. However, police didn’t reveal the identity of the accused saying he was under interrogation. He would be forwarded to court on the charge of peddling contrabands under the NDPS Act, said sources
It may be noted that excise sleuths had seized brown sugar worth around Rs 35 lakh and arrested a person in the Jaleswar area in October last year.