Drug peddler held with 1.6kg of brown sugar in Puri district

Bhubaneswar: The special task force (STF) of the crime branch on Saturday arrested a drug peddler with 1.6 kg of brown sugar at Nimapara in Puri district. On a tip-off, the STF officers intercepted Sujit Kumar Mohanty (24) of Gulapada with the contraband. “Sujit could not give any satisfactory answers to questions on the contraband found in his possession. He was arrested,” said an STF officer. The STF has been launching special drives against narcotics since 2020. It has seized more than 75 kg of brown sugar, 202 grams of cocaine, more than 116 quintals of ganja and 3.63 kg of opium. It has till now arrested more than 185 drug dealers and peddlers. The STF also destroyed over 62 kg of seized brown sugar in the past one year.tnn