Brown sugar worth Rs 6 lakh seized, 2 arrested

A special squad of Excise Intelligence and  Enforcement Bureau, Central division, Cuttack on Wednesday arrested two persons and seized 55 grams of brown sugar worth more than `6 lakh from their posses
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CUTTACK: A special squad of Excise Intelligence and  Enforcement Bureau, Central division, Cuttack on Wednesday arrested two persons and seized 55 grams of brown sugar worth more than `6 lakh from their possession.

The team led by Inspector Amarendra Kumar Jena arrested Jamal Khan (27) and Sk Kala (29) of Bajigadia under Kharagpur Town police limits of Medinipur district in West Bengal. Acting on the direction of Excise Commissioner PK Senapati, the special squad laid in wait in disguise at Cuttack station and cornered the accused near Gate no-2.

“For the first time we have nabbed two persons from outside State for trading in brown sugar. As the local drug peddlers were reluctant to bring the narcotic from outside the State in fear of police and excise officials, the smugglers from other States had started bearing the risk of transportation of drugs to Odisha for the last few months," said Jena.

During interrogation, the accused confessed to have transported the narcotic from West Bengal and revealed that they would have supplied it to peddlers of Cuttack and Bhubaneswar, Jena informed.

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