Bhubaneswar: The Special Crime Unit (SCU) of the Commissionerate Police on Friday arrested two young women from Jadupur area under Khandagiri police limits of the city for alleged peddling of brown sugar. Police have seized 256 gm of brown sugar worth Rs 26 lakh from their possession.
The accused persons have been identified as Karishma Rout (30) and Pragyan Priya Swain (23). Police have also 03 mobile phones and one laptop from their possession.
According to an official press release, the SCU has successfully unearthed a drug trafficking syndicate with the arrest of Karishma and Pragyan who were operating inter-district and 256 grams of brown sugar( Diacetyl Morphine) worth Rs 26 lakhs was seized from their exclusive possession.
The Narcotics wing of the SCU, led by K K Hariprasad, ACP, along with Inspector Durgesh Nandini Mohanty, Inspector Soumya Ranjan Biswal, Sub Inspector Tapan Ku Swain and the dedicated team, acting on intelligence in coordination, conducted a targeted operation resulting in the seizure of a huge quantity of brown sugar, a highly addictive and dangerous narcotic substance.
Based on reliable information on Friday, the crime unit team conducted a raid in the rented house of Pragyan Priya Swain, situated in Jadupur, under Khandagiri police station where the accused persons, who are women in connivance and criminal conspiracy with the kingpin were procuring a significant quantity of brown sugar and were making small packets to be peddled in the city.
The arrestees are qualified and one of the accused has done PG in Computer Application from a local College of Bhubaneswar.
The two accused persons under the garb of working ladies, took the house on rent for the last one year at the behest of their kingpin and were running this business from the rented house.
