Police on Tuesday said they had busted an inter-state smuggling syndicate, seized 70 kg of marijuana valued at Rs 3.50 lakh from a car and arrested four persons in Chhattisgarh's Jagdalpur district.
The arrests followed inputs from informers, the police said.
Sishupal Sinha, the SHO of Darbha police station, told The Pioneer on phone that the operation was carried out on Darbha road close to Forest Naka. Four drug peddlers travelling in the car to Madhya Pardesh from Malkangiri, Odisha, were apprehended.
All four men, arrested under Section 20(b) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, are residents of Madhya Pradesh's district Mandala, Sinha said. They are Sandip Sonwani (32), Avinash Yadav (18), Ajay Markole (23) and Ashish (19).
Police also confiscated the Honda City car used in the crime.