Khurda, Nov 29 (PTI) Brown sugar and ganja worth Rs 9 crore were destroyed by the Odisha Police on Tuesday, officials said.

The drugs -- 8.74 kg of brown sugar and 217.4 kg of ganja -- were destroyed at a designated incinerator in Tangiapada in Khurda, they said.

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The drugs were seized in seven different cases, police said in a statement.

As the trial of narcotics cases takes time, seized drugs remain stocked at police stations and court, exposed to all kinds of vulnerabilities, it said.

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Accordingly, the drugs were destroyed in presence of officers of the State Forensic Science laboratory and members of the State Pollution Control Board, it added.

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