Bhubaneswar: Often brown sugar seizures in Bhubaneswar and Cuttack have set alarm bells ringing in the police corridor with twin cities emerged as a paradise for drug smugglers and addicts.
Apart from consistent crackdown, smugglers continue to sell narcotics in twin cities.
His statistics seem quite worrying.
Komisiance police have confiscated around 4.2 kg worth of brown sugar around Rs 4 Crore in Cuttack and more than 2 kg of brown which is worth around Rs 2 Crore in Bhubaneswar in the last five months.
The source said the seizure would be almost 60% more than seized during the same period last year.
The police said many vendors, who were arrested in the past, were customary violators.
Because illegal business took fast money, most of them returned to peddling drugs immediately after leaving prison.
Two of the six brown sugar vendors, which were arrested in the cuttack with more than 1 kg of brown sugar on Monday, was arrested in a similar case before.
Police said small smugglers including students, real estate entrepreneurs and criminals.
A small bag containing 200 mg brown sugar sold for around Rs 800.
Police source said smugglers, who usually get brown sugar from Balalasore and West Bengal, selling 10 grams of brown sugar at almost Rs 1.2 lakh.
“Our focus has been to get rid of drug threats from twin cities.
A frequent seizures with a large number of brown sugar and cash reflect our sustainable efforts to sellers.
We managed to win RS 34.8 lakh cash together with brown sugar from a group of sellers Donkey in Bhubaneswar last month.
We also stressed on financial investigations against the defendants ordered under narcotics of narcotics and laws of psychotropic substances, “said Police Commissioner Twin Priyadarshi Saumendra.