4 held with narcotics

ROURKELA: The State Excise Department on Tuesday seized narcotic substances worth Rs 6.5 lakh and arrested four persons, including two women.
Reports said excise department sleuths and its intelligence wing raided a house at Nala Road area and seized 6 grams of brown sugar from one woman Meher Khatun. In a similar raid on another house in Gopabandhupali slum, 6 kg of ganja estimated at over Rs 30,000 was recovered from another woman, Anita Behera. The sleuths also swooped down on a plant site area and arrested two persons, Sarfuddin Shaw and Kabruddin Shaw. Ganja worth Rs 20,000 was recovered from them. Standin district excise superintendent SK Swain said brown sugar was packed in six small plastic pouches.