Two held with brown sugar worth Rs 8 cr in Indore

Two persons were arrested on Friday in Indore in Madhya Pradesh with 7.7 kilograms of brown sugar worth Rs 8 crore, a police official said.

Parasram Meghwal is a resident of Pratapgarh district in Rajasthan, while his son-in-law Dharmendra Chauhan is from Ratlam, Additional Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) Amit Singh told reporters.

''The two were nabbed under Pardeshipura police station limits with a bag containing 7.7 kilograms of brown sugar worth Rs 8 crore. The duo has said they got the contraband from Pratapgarh in Rajasthan and were taking it to Howrah near Kolkata,'' Singh informed.

A Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act was registered and further probe into the peddling network is underway, he said.

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