Daltonganj police nabbed two youths Jaspal Singh and Chamkar Singh of ludhiana in Daltonganj railway station on Monday August 15 evening with a kilogram of raw and semi liquid opium.
Sources said the two were to travel by Taata Jammu Tawai express train the same August 15 night but were netted by the police.
The two had collected this contraband from one Jimmy of Panki in Palamu.
Prabhat Ranjan Barwar DSP has confirmed this arrest with this opium weighing one kilogram.
Barwar said the two looked versed in smuggling of contraband as they said they had this from one Jimmy.
On being asked as to what their link is here Barwar said ' I have this knowledge that labourers who go to Punjab from here to earn a living travel from here with this kind of thing and these labourers are a kind of link between the pedlars of Punjab and the poppy growers here'.
Barwar said many labourers of this Palamu languish in jails of Punjab when caught there by police. This is the first episode when two from ludhiana Jaspal and Chamkar have been nabbed here in Jharkhand's Palamu.
Poppy cultivation is a recorded offence here which is done mostly near the river/rivulet base and which too in an annual ritual before the fruition of it security forces destroy damage or burn the crop.
The two have been remanded in judicial custody.