Brown sugar worth Rs 80,000 seized, 2 held in Odisha

Two persons, including a woman, were arrested in Odisha’s Balasore district after brown sugar worth around Rs 80,000 was seized from their possession, police said. Acting on a tip-off, a team of policemen on Tuesday night conducted a search operation in Adarbazar area in the Sahadevkhunta Police Station limits and seized the narcotics substance weighing 82.2 grams, a senior officer said. Unaccounted cash of Rs 14,800 was also seized from their possession, he said. A case has been registered under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act and several sections of the IPC, the officer added.