KUMUD JENAMANI
Jamshedpur, Oct 27: A 28-year-old woman was arrested for selling “brown sugar” and sent to judicial custody by Adityapur police on Wednesday afternoon.
Identified as Reshma Khatoon, the lady drug peddler had been picked up with 5.6 grams of brown sugar from her house on F – Road in Adityapur Muslim Bustee on Wednesday morning.
The police had also seized Rs 12,320 from her possession during the raid at the house. After the interrogation and getting it verified that the woman was in the trade of drugs peddling, the police arrested her.
OC, Adityapur thana, Alok Kumar Dubey said they raided Reshma Khatoon’s house following a tip-off from a senior administrative officer of the Seraikela-Kharsawan.
“Though we succeeded to arrest one more lady drug peddler from the Adityapur Muslim Bustee today, but could not get a clue to the main supplier despite thorough interrogation of the accused, ” said the OC.
Dubey stated that unlike other drug peddlers Reshma had no small packets containing the brown sugar and would sell the drugs by making the packets on the arrival of any customer at her home.
Reshma was the second lady drug peddler to have been arrested from the Adityapur Muslim Bustee during the past four days. On Saturday a 30-year-old woman identified as Lal Bano was arrested with 175 packets of brown sugar from the Muslim Bustee. The police had also seized Rs 30,000 from Lal Bano.
It may be mentioned here that youngsters, including girls from Adityapur and different localities of the steel city, use to visit Adityapur Muslim Bustee which has turned into a brown sugar hub.
