LUCKNOW, Aug. 29 -- The Anti-Narcotics Task Force (ANTF), Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh, has arrested two interstate drug traffickers who were smuggling narcotics from Rajasthan, confirmed senior police officials in a press note shared from state police headquarters in Lucknow on Friday. They said the ANTF team seized 15.48 quintal poppy straw worth approximately Rs.1 crore from the arrested accused.

Poppy straw is the husk left after the opium is extracted from the pods. It contains a very small morphine content. The officials said Saddam Hussain and Nadar Khan alias Baatia were arrested while they were transporting the narcotics in a canter from Rajasthan to Bhatinda, Punjab. They said the ANTF team received information about the smuggling...