Bhubaneswar: Odisha Police on Monday arrested a drug peddler and seized brown sugar worth around Rs 40 lakh during a raid in the Airfield Police station area of Bhubaneswar.

The accused drug peddler was identified as Sk Akbar, of Arada Bazar (Golapola), under Sahadevkhunta police limits of Balasore district.

The police sources said that, acting on a meticulously coordinated intelligence input, the Special Crime Unit(SCU) of Commissionerate Police launched a strategic surveillance operation targeting the illicit Brown Sugar trade in the Bhubaneswar region.

It further added that the operation led to the successful arrest of the accused following the interception near Lingaraj Road Railway Station under Airfield Police Station limits in Bhubaneswar.

The accused person was allegedly waitin

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