Bhubaneswar, April 23 -- The Special Task Force (STF) of Odisha arrested two persons including an interstate drugs peddler following a raid with local police at Talcher in Angul district on Tuesday. The accused have been identified as Rakibul Sekh (43) of Murshidabad in West Bengal and Bijay Birbarma (26) of Trinath Colony area in Angul district.

The STF officials seized brown sugar (Heroin) weighing more than 1.1 Kg (1120 gram) and other incriminating materials from their possession.How Brown Sugar Enters Odisha?

Senior Odisha STF officials said that Brown sugar is a local/ crude version of Heroin (chemical name- Di- acetyl Morphine).

In Odisha, it is generally trafficked by peddlers from Murshidabad- Nadia-Burdwan districts of West B...