Bhadrak: Police have found more than Rs 25 lakh during a raid on the house of a lady brown sugar peddler in Odisha’s Bhadrak district.
According to sources, there were reports of brown sugar peddling in Mirzapur area of Elkhar Nayanagar under Bhadrak Town police station. Though the police were aware of the drug peddling, they were unable to take any concrete step for lack of evidence and witnesses.
On the day, the police received confirmed information about smuggling of brown sugar from the house of the lady peddler. A police team carried out the raid on her house in presence of Bhadrak tehsildar Sangram Keshari Khuntia.
During the raid, the police seized around 50 gram of brown sugar. Further search led the police to find bundles of currency notes kept hidden in boxes of snacks, rice and dal and under bed and mattresses.
There so many currency notes of Rs 500, 100 and 50 denominations that the team got tired of counting those and brought a counting machine. They had already found Rs 25 lakh from different places in the house. They were expecting to get more money as the search was going on, the sources said.
Adequate police force has been deployed in the area to prevent any law and order situation. Bhadrak SP Madkar Sandeep Sampat, additional SP Arup Abhisek Behera, IIC of Town police station and other police officers were also present at the spot.
