Cuttack, Markatnagar police today busted a gang involved in sale of brown sugar and arrested six persons including two medicine shop owners.
Police have seized brown sugar weighing 223 grams and other psychotropic drugs from the accused. Police said that the market value of the seized contraband would be Rs 23 lakh.
The accused have been identified as Abid Khan (37), Nilakantha Naik (45), Baidyanath Behera (21), Manad Ranjan Naik (19) and two medicine shop owners identified as Sushil Kumar Mohanty (38) and Pramod Naik (58).
Police said that Khan is the mastermind of the gang which has been operating in the city for past two years. “During investigation, we found the accused of mixing psychotropic drugs powder in brown sugar to increase the quantity. Further investigation is continuing to ascertain involvmnet of others in the racket,” said a police official.
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