Brown sugar worth Rs 8 lakh seized from Puri

Puri: Intensifying crackdown on narcotics trade in the pilgrim town, Excise officials today arrested a person on charges of possessing brown sugar worth around Rs 8 lakh at Penthakata Budanagar chhak of Puri district. Based on a tip-off on brown sugar peddling, officials of the Excise department conducted surprise raids at some houses in the […]

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Puri: Intensifying crackdown on narcotics trade in the pilgrim town, Excise officials today arrested a person on charges of possessing brown sugar worth around Rs 8 lakh at Penthakata Budanagar chhak of Puri district.

Based on a tip-off on brown sugar peddling, officials of the Excise department conducted surprise raids at some houses in the area and seized 8 gms of the contraband item valued at around Rs 8 lakh from one Ramachandra Nayak.