Chatra, Jan 5 || Jharkhand’s Chatra police have arrested five people involved in the smuggling of banned brown sugar, officials said.
Narcotics worth approximately Rs 6 lakh were seized during the operation, along with a car used in the crime and five mobile phones, the police added.
The arrests were made following a tip-off received by Superintendent of Police Sumit Kumar Agrawal. Acting swiftly on the information, the SP constituted a special team from the Sadar police station under the supervision of Sub-Divisional Police Officer (SDPO–Sadar) Sandeep Suman.
According to police, intelligence inputs suggested that brown sugar was being bought and sold from a car parked in the Turag forest area along the Chatra-Itkhori main road, falling under the jurisdiction of Sadar police station.
After verifying the information, the police team cordoned off the area and conducted a raid, arresting five traffickers red-handed while they were engaged in the illegal trade.