Busting an inter-state racket of drug peddlers, the Jharkhand ATS along with Giridih police on Wednesday evening arrested one mastermind from Tati-Jharia area on Bagodar-Hazaribagh road for allegedly smuggling opium from Jharkhand to Punjab.
Sleuths have also seized sample of about 300 grams of opium,one pulsar motorbike and cash Rs250000 from the possession of the person.
According to the DySP,Awadh Kumar Yadav of ATS, they had been getting inputs that a consignment of narcotics is reaching Parasnath area via Hazaribagh-Bagodar road.
A youth identified as Pintu Dangi was coming back to Chatra via Bagodar.
A team of ATS along with local Giridih police were sent to this route where the drug pedlar was caught.
Earlier, on Wednesday six persons including three women were arrested at Nimiaghat railway station by join operation of ATS and Giridih police with an illegal possession of 14 kg opium.
Dangi was wanted by the UP and Haryana police also.