Bhubaneswar, April 23: A team of Special Task Force (STF) with Angul police conducted a raid in several places of Angul district against illigal possession of Narcotic drugs and apprehended two drug peddlers including an inter-state drug peddler.
The accused has been identified as Rakibul Sekh (43) of Khodabandpur in Murshidabad district of West Bengal and Bijay Birbarma (26) of Trinath Colony of Angul.
During search contraband brown sugar (Heroin) weighing more than 1.1 Kg (1120 gram) and other incriminating materials were recovered and seized from their possession. The accused persons could not produce any valid authority in support of possession of such contraband materials, for which the accused persons have been arrested and are being forwarded to the court of Addl. District Judge cum Special Judge of Talcher.
This is worth to mention that Brown sugar is a local/ crude version of. In Odisha, it is generally trafficked from Murshidabad- Nadia- Burdwan districts of West Bengal via Midnapore- Jaleswar using road or rail route.
Particularly Lalgola area of Murshidabad is considered to be hub of the Brown sugar production. Locally available/ grown opium and easily available chemicals like Acetic anhydride (locally popular as “Pani” in Murshidabad area) makes production of Brown sugar easy in this area. Unlike the Ganja ( which is Voluminous & heavy and takes lot of space for transportation),
Brown sugar is very easy for trafficking because of very less in volume and weight and also doesn’t have any specific smell like Ganja. It makes the job of law enforcement agencies difficult.
Worth mentioning, since 2020, STF has seized more than 76 Kg of Brown Sugar/Heroin, 202 Gram Cocaine and more than 124 quintals of Ganja/Marijuana, Opium more than 14 kg and arrested more than 197 drug dealers/peddlers including many inter-state traffickers.
