The Choparan police of Hazaribag district have seized 20 kilogram opium from a car on GT Road during the special checking drive on Tuesday night. The Narcotics department has valued the seized opium in the market is of about Rs 30 lakhs. Police have arrested two persons and seized a car.
Hazaribag SP Kartik S said that the department received secret information that some of the persons were carrying illegal opium in a car and will cross the area of the Choparan police station.
The officer in charge of Choparan police station Nitin Kumar Singh along with police force started the checking drive. As the driver of the car saw the police force he sped up the car. The officer in charge chased the car and caught the two persons who were sitting in the car.
When the officer in charge checked the car he found some bags of wheat in the car. The officer in charge opened the wheat bags and found five plastic bags of 4 Kg each.
The bag was full of some objectionable items. It was cleared by the narcotics department that the seized item is opium and the market value of seized opium is Rs 30 lakhs.