Lohardaga, Oct 31 (PTI) Eight people were arrested with brown sugar worth Rs 20 lakh in Jharkhand’s Lohardaga district, police said on Saturday.
Acting on a tip-off that some people travelling in an SUV had arrived here to buy and sell brown sugar and had gathered at an under-construction house under Kudu police station limits on Friday, police raided the house and nabbed the accused with 98 grams of brown sugar, a senior officer said.
“We arrested eight inter-district drug peddlers with 98 grams of brown sugar. Besides, the SUV was also seized from the spot during the raid,” Lohardaga SP Sadique Anwar Rizvi said.
Six of them are residents of Ranchi, while two others hail from Latehar district. All the accused are aged between 18 and 32 years, he said.
The estimated market value of the seized drugs is worth around Rs 20 lakh, another official said.
An FIR, under sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985, has been registered at the Kudu police station. PTI RPS RPS RG
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