BHubaneswar: Special Task Force (STF) Branch of State Crime destroyed the open-weapons-weapons racket by arresting one of the gang members in Nayagarh Regency on Tuesday.
STF confiscated 3-kg chocolate sugar, worth RS 3 Crore, Rs 65.32 lakh cash, arms and ammunition from the defendant, was identified as K Vickey Rao (32), Jatni residents at Khurda District.
Acting on a tip-off, STF stormed the hiding place in the village of Udayalan in Sindaia from Nayagarh Regency and took narcotics, cash and firearms.
“We have identified seven other gang members.
They will be arrested soon.
Rao was previously involved in drug trafficking cases.
We will bring it to detention for further interrogation,” said Director General of Police (crime branch) Sanjeeb Panda said “Even though we have received inputs Specific about drug smuggling, our attack leads to the excavation of a gun racket too.
This is the first time our personnel seized a large amount of brown sugar, cash, and firearms (three 7mm pistols, 7 magazines and 43 bullets) in a single attack, “Pankaj said .
STF said the gang members had committed brown sugar from Murshidabad in West Bengal and firearms from the Munger area in Bihar.
Even though the police did not reveal the names of Geng’s brown sugar suppliers, sources said officials might get vital instructions from the famous Sheikh drug dealer ago, which was arrested from the West Bengal Nadia District at 8.
1 Crore in the Nadia district under the Narcotics Act and Psychotropic Substance (NDPS), 1985.
Under the VA chapter from the NDPS Law (section of AZ), the police were empowered to seize and lose the property of drug smugglers anywhere in the country this.
Since 2020, STF has won more than 47-kg of brown sugar, worth Rs 47 Crore, and captures 122 drug dealers from all the states and outside.
At least 67 firearms have been confiscated by STF during that period.