Bhubaneswar : Three persons are arrested along with a huge cache of opium in the state capital, Bhubaneswar by Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) officials.
Reportedly, the officials conducted a raid and seized around 20 Kg of opium from the accused hailing from Uttar Pradesh.
Earlier, today brown sugar worth over Rs 1 Crore was seized from Odisha’s Khurda and three-drug peddlers were arrested in these connections.
It seems Odisha has turned into a new destination for the drug mafias with rampant trade of illegal narcotics like Brown Sugar spreading its tentacles across several districts of the State.