Despite the crackdown by the enforcement agencies, massive seizures and arrest of a number of peddlers, the flow of drugs continues unabated to Bhubaneswar.In an example, the Saheed Nagar police on Wednesday seized 130 gram of brown sugar worth around Rs 13 lakh and arrested two persons in this connection in the city.
Acting on inputs, a police team conducted a raid and nabbed two drug peddlers while they were planning to sell the contraband item in the city.“Two persons from Puri district, Nikunja Jagdev and Dhirendra Jaysingh, were nabbed by our special task team and Saheed Nagar police while they were trying to sell brown sugar in Bhubaneswar region today,” said city DCP Umashankar Das.
The cops seized 130-gram brown sugar from their possession, he added.