Chandigarh, Aug. 21 -- An interstate and cross-border drug syndicate has been busted, resulting in the arrest of six people in Chandigarh, police said on Thursday.

A contraband worth nearly Rs 1.25 crore has been recovered from their possession, officials added.

The operation was carried out under the supervision of SP (Crime) Jasbir Singh, with close monitoring by DSP (Crime) Dhiraj Kumar, and led by Inspector Satvinder, SHO of Police Station-Crime, Sector 11.

According to SP (Crime) Jasbir Singh, the chain of arrests began on August 5 when ASI Naseeb Singh, during patrolling duty in Chandigarh, received secret information and apprehended a woman named Pooja, daughter of a notorious peddler from Sector 38, with 54 grams of cocaine. He...