Puttur: Brown Sugar Worth Crores Confiscated, Four Arrested
Daijiworld Media Network – Puttur (SP)
Puttur, Nov 28: In an operation conducted on the night of Sunday November 27, the district police succeeded in arresting four persons and recovering brown sugar valued at several crores of rupees from their possession.
The operation was conducted by the personnel of the District Crime Intelligence Bureau at Kavoor Melinapete in Madnoor village of the taluk.
The arrested persons have been identified as Sanat Kumar (26), Anish (28), Milan (24), and Sanit (23). The police said that two of them hail from Kasargod, while the other two belong to Mangalore and Davangere.
Dakshina Kannada district superintendent of police, Labhu Ram, while confirming that 985 grams of brown sugar was seized from the possession of the arrested men, said that its actual value is yet to be ascertained. The police are interrogating the accused, and a clearer picture would emerge by Monday, he stated.