KUMUD JENAMANI
Jamshedpur, Nov 30: In a breakthrough against the sale of ‘brown sugar’ in the city, the police nabbed seven drug peddlers from separate places under Bagbera, Burmamines and Mango police station areas on Wednesday. The police also seized 66 packets of brown sugar and over Rs 11,000 cash from them.
Acting on a tip-off, the police raided a place at Kitadih in Bagbera but at the sight of the police team, two youths who were sitting on a stationary motorcycle started fleeing. Suspecting the duo to be drug peddlers, the police team chased them and caught them. On searching, 14 packets of the narcotic drugs were recovered from their possession.
Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Animesh Gupta said the arrested persons identified as Rajkumar and Barun Kumar Prajapati, both are in their mid-twenties.
“On being interrogated, the two confessed their crime and also divulged the names of two more youths, Amit Singh and Ravi Kumar Das, whom we arrested from Burmamines and Postunagar respectively for being indulged in the racket of brown sugar sale, ” said Gupta while talking to the newsmen at the Barbara thana.
In another round of arresting, Mango police nabbed three youths while they were busy selling narcotic drugs on the bank of Subernarekha river this afternoon.
Addressing a press conference, deputy superintendent of police (headquarters-I) Birendra Kumar Ram said that the trio were selling the drugs considering the riverbank was a safe place for running the racket.
“But we had specific information about those drug peddlers and succeeded to nab them with a stock of 52 packets of brown sugar. During the search, the police team also recovered Rs 11,750 as sale proceeds from those arrested who were identified as Raja Kumar Singh, Sanjay Aman Singh and Baldeep Singh, ” said Ram.
DSP Ram said during interrogation, the arrested persons revealed that the supply of the brown sugar is made from West Bengal, adding that the police are determined to eliminate the sale of the narcotic drugs from the steel city soon.
