Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], November 19 (ANI): An employee of the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation was arrested for allegedly peddling brown sugar, police said on Wednesday.

According to the police, Dillip Kumar Behera, 40, a resident of Badadanda Sahi, Old Town, was arrested under section 21(b) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985. Behera works as a peon at the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation here.

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Acting on a tip-off that brown sugar/morphine was being allegedly sold near Blood Bank, BMC Hospital in Old Town, police conducted a raid on Tuesday and apprehended Behera, Bhubaneswar Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Umasankar Dash said.

The police, in the raid, also seized 7.640 grams of brown sugar, a scooter, Rs 42,050 cash, five mobile phones, seven savings bank account passbooks, about 40 gm gold ornaments from his possession.

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Earlier today, Behera was produced before the court and sent to judicial custody. (ANI)

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