Chatra/Ranchi (Jharkhand) May 3 (PTI) One person has been arrested and poppy straw worth Rs 1.02 crore seized in two different operations in Jharkhand’s Chatra and Ranchi districts, officials said on Sunday.
Police arrested a man and seized 283 kg of poppy straw, from which opium is made, from a tempo during a vehicle checking drive in Chatra district on Saturday, an officer said.
The vehicle was intercepted near Balvadohar village in Pratappur police station area following a tip-off that narcotics were being transported to adjoining Bihar, Chatra Sub-divisional Police Officer (SDPO) Sandeep Suman said.
“The poppy straw was packed into 10 sacks. The drug peddler has been identified as Ajay Kumar Saw (27). The market value of the seized narcotics is Rs 42 lakh, and it was being taken to Bihar,” he said.
An FIR has been lodged against the accused under the NDPS Act, and he has been sent to judicial custody, the officer said.
In another operation, police seized 400 kg of poppy straw dumped in a forest near Rugdi village in Tamar police station area in Ranchi district.
Police made the seizure on May 1 following a tip-off that unidentified drug peddlers were hiding a large quantity of poppy straw.
Twenty-one sacks of poppy straw worth Rs 60 lakh were seized, Bundu SDPO Om Prakash said. PTI COR RPS RPS ACD
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