Five held with drugs worth Rs 1cr in Uttar Pradesh

Muzaffarnagar/UP: Police on Thursday seized drugs worth Rs 1 crore from a truck here and arrested five people, a senior officer said.

Acting on a tip-off, a police team raided a truck stationed outside a restaurant here and recovered 2004 kg toda post, Superintendent of Police Ajay Kumar told reporters here.

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He said the contraband was being smuggled from Haryana and five men have been arrested in this connection.

According to Circle Officer Rajesh Tiwari, a case has been registered under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act against the accused persons, who are being interrogated.

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(PTI)