Bhubaneswar: A 46-year-old person was arrested after heroin worth more than Rs1 crore was seized from his possession in Odisha’s Keonjhar district, police said Tuesday.
Acting on a tip-off, a team of the Special Task Force of the Crime Branch conducted a raid near Jodiaghati area along the National Highway-49 Monday and seized 1.080 kilograms of the narcotics substance from the drug peddler, an officer said.
The task force registered a case under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 Tuesday and arrested the accused, he said.
Since 2020, the STF has seized more than 74 kilograms of brown sugar/ heroin, 202 gram of cocaine, 116 quintals of ganja and 3.63kilograms of opium and arrested 184 drug peddlers.
STF also destroyed more than 62kilograms of seized brown sugar in the last one year.
PTI
