In a glaring example of different city slums being turned into drug hubs, police seized brown sugar weighing 195 grams and arrested two youths from Salia Sahi under the Nayapalli police station during a raid on Friday.
The police also seized cash of Rs 3.76 lakh from the arrestees’ possession during the raid.
Acting on a tipoff, a team of police under the supervision of Excise Superintendent Prasanna Kumar Acharya raided two houses at Adivasi Village of the Salia Sahi slum and seized the contraband.
“We seized 195 gram brown sugar worth around Rs 19.50 lakh and seized Rs 3, 76,100 cash from the youths possession. They were arrested under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act and will be produced before a court,” said Cutttack Flying Squad IIC Sharat Chandra Bhanja.
As per primary investigation, they were procuring the brown sugar from Howrah, Baleswar and Jaleswar and keeping those in Khordha from where they were bringing brown sugar on small quantities to Salia Sahi for peddling, Bhanja said.
He further said that the accused have confessed that they were involved in the trade for the past three months. It might be mentioned here that drugs have been many times from Haldipadia slum under the Laxmisagar PS.