Acting on a tipoff, the Jagatsinghpur police on Friday picked up a youth allegedly peddling brown sugar in the Gopalsagar area here and seized 18 grams of the contraband and a sum of Rs 1.40 lakh from the peddler.
The youth was identified as Saroj Malick alias Dhuma, a resident of Madhapur village. Police informed that during night patrolling, the youth was spotted at Gopalsagar; and after seeing the cops, he started running.
The police vehicle followed him and, finally, he was overpowered after a short distance.
After questioning at the police station, he was produced in court and later forwarded to jail on Saturday.