Brown sugar worth nearly Rs one crore was seized and a person arrested from Assam’s Hojai district on Tuesday, police said.Acting on a tip-off, the police seized 983 gms of brown sugar from a house in Lumding’s South Hill Colony in the district.
A person, identified as Deabash Hore, was arrested in this connection.The police alleged that he had brought the contraband from Dimapur to Hojai in a train to sell it.
The value of the seized drug was worth nearly Rs one crore in the international market, the police added.