Four arrested with brown sugar, firearm

Siliguri

: A couple — Ramj Prasad Bhaghat (30), a resident of Lalbazar in East Sikkim, and his wife Aruna Rai — was arrested and police seized

brown sugar

from their rented house in Salugar on Saturday.

A specific case under the NDPC Act was registered against the couple and the duo was produced in Jalpaiguri court on Sunday. The police claimed to have seized two plastic pouches containing brown sugar weighing 236g, the market value of which is estimated to be Rs 52 lakh.

In another incident, cops arrested two persons and seized a 9mm pistol along with four rounds of live cartridges from them at Asigarh on Saturday. The two were identified as Kaushik Das and Shibu Sarkar, both residents of Baghajatin colony.