Bhubaneswar: Two people, including a woman, were arrested with brown sugar worth Rs 55 lakh and RS 34.80 lakh cash from their home in the Kespura area under the police limit of Nagar Saheed.
The defendant was identified by the police as a loss of Biswarajan (23) and Pinky Das (28).
“Acting on the tip-off, police Saheed Nagar and the fast action team (Qat) together raided the house and grabbed a large number of narcotics and cash.
We are looking for a woman’s husband, who is running around,” said Police Commissioner Saumendra Priyadarshi.
Police said Rout was the main supplier of drugs and women of pediages.
The police were very suspicious of the woman mopping a large amount of money by selling brown sugar in Bhubaneswar.
He will hand over cash at RS 34.80 Lakh to Rout when the police swooped the gang.
“Rout belongs to the Balalasore District area.
He bought narcotics from Kolkata.
The gang is active in Bhubaneswar and has cleared the drug for many students, laborers and idle youth,” Priyadarshi said.
The police said the investigation was the initial stage and that they would immediately try to solve the entire network chain, including those operating from Kolkata.
In the past four months, Komisiance police have confiscated around 2.2 kg of brown sugar worth almost Rs 2.2 Crore from Cuttack and Chocolate Sugar 3.1kg worth RS 3.1 Crore from Bhubaneswar.
Priyadarshi said the police would conduct financial investigations against the defendants ordered under narcotics of narcotics and laws of psychotropic substances.
The police said the attachment of the accused of assets and freezing their bank accounts would handle drug smugglers and broke the gang-gang’s financial backbone involved in the crime.
In related development, special squad and police Bharatpur here on Wednesday confiscated 28 packages of marijuana weighing more than 90kg from the car on the outskirts of the city.
Three people, identified by the police as Jayaram Digal, Russia Digal and Binod Nayak, all the residents of the Kandhamal District, were arrested.
They carry a consignment from Kandhamal and should sell it in the castle.