Bhubaneswar, Sept. 11 -- The Court of the Second Additional District Judge-cum-Special Judge, Khordha, today convicted a drug peddler and sentenced him to 20 years of Rigorous Imprisonment (RI) along with a fine of Rs.1 lakh under the NDPS Act.
The convict, Chittaranjan Sahoo, a resident of Dinabandhpur in Dhenkanal district, was arrested by the Special Task Force (STF) of Odisha Police on May 20, 2023, for dealing in contraband brown sugar/heroin at his rented house in Unit-VIII, Bhubaneswar.
During the raid, STF officials seized 1,100 grams of brown sugar along with other incriminating materials. The seized substance was sent to the State Forensic Science Laboratory (SFSL), Rasulgarh, where it was confirmed to be Diacetylmorphine (heroi...