Brown sugar worth Rs 90 lakh seized, 3 held

Thursday, February 7, 2008, 22:02 [IST]

Belgaum, Feb 7 (UNI) Police seized 570 gram of brown sugar, worth about Rs 90 lakh, and arrested three persons here today.

District Superintendent of Police Hemant Nimbalkar told newspersons that the culprits were arrested from central bus stand on a tip off.

The arrested were Elengbum Biswanath Singh alias Radhesham Singh (28) of Manipur, Tombram Suvaschandrasingh, an army nurse who is currently on leave and Nandakishor Narayan Majagaonkar (26) of Joida in Karwar, Karnataka.

He said a search was on for one Ramesh Narayan Sawant of Jagalbet, working in Army Dental Corps, Rajasthan.

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