The Special Task Force (STF) of Crime Branch seized 4.025 kg of brown sugar at Jamalpur in the Jaleswar area of Baleswar district on Wednesday night.
This was the second-biggest drug haul by the STF, said DGP Abhay on Thursday. The estimated market value of the seized contraband is around Rs 4 crore.
Two persons were arrested in this connection, the DGP said, adding that efforts were on to assertion the involvement of others in the case.
The STF has so far seized 20.736 grams of brown sugar, detected 22 cases and arrested 43 drug peddlers in 2020. The magnitude of the seizures is more than the cumulative seizure made by all agencies of State police during the last eight years, the DGP said.
He said police had seized 523.89 quintals of ganja in 2018 and 618.15 quintals in 2019. Till last report came, over 630 quintals of ganja has been seized in 2020.