Brown Sugar Seized, 5 Detained in Smart City

(Pramit Pramathes) Bhubaneswar: A Special Task Force team of the state Crime Branch busted a brown sugar racket in the state capital and seized near about 324gm brown sugar worth about Rs. 50 lakh. Five accused, two from the capital and 3 from Balasore were nabbed in this connection.

Crime Branch STF DIG Jai Narayan Pankaj intimated about it in a press conference today. After getting tip off from a faithful source, the STF team conducted raid near Kalinga Stadium in smart city yesterday and nabbed two drug peddlers namely SK Sagba alias Roy and Tanmaya Kumar Sahu. During interrogation, the two nabbed persons disclosed that they procured the contraband from Balasore.

Based on this information raids were conducted in Balasore and three persons namely SK Fakir, MD Sohail and SK Haibul were arrested. Mastermind of this illegal trade is SK Fakir. Rs. 1 lakh 84 thousand was seized from there possession. The Brown sugar contraband was coming from Midnapore and Kolkata of West Bengal.