Bhubaneswar: Excise sleuths conducted raids and seized huge quantities of brown sugar from the Muslim slum at Jhadeshwarpur under Jaleshwar area in Balaswar district again early this morning.

A joint team of Balasore and Jaleshwar excise officers seized 23 gram of brown sugar and arrested a person for possessing it during raids early this morning. The total cost of the seized brown sugar is stated to be Rs 2,30,000.

The arrested brown sugar trader has been identified as Anil Khatif, a resident of Kharagpur Golbazaar area in West Bengal.