Bhubaneswar, Dec. 3 -- In a major crackdown on narcotics trade, police seized brown sugar worth around Rs 65 lakh from the Sundara Sahi area under Model police station limits in Khordha on Tuesday.Acting on a tip-off, a special police team conducted a raid and recovered 650 grams of brown sugar and 175 bottles of cough syrup used as intoxicant substances.

Police arrested three accused, Bishnupriya Jena, Abhijit Jena, and Debashish Pattnaik.

According to police sources, Bishnupriya and Abhijit are mother and son, and had allegedly been running the illegal drug racket in the Khordha region for a long time.

Investigators are trying to determine the supply chain where the accused sourced the narcotics from and the network through which the...