Uttar Pradesh: Heroin worth Rs 1.5 crore seized from Barabanki

LUCKNOW: An Narcotics Control Bureau team seized 348 grams of heroin and arrested two persons from Barabanki on Saturday.
NCB said that the seized consignment is worth Rs 1.5 crore in the market. NCB also recovered Rs 3.73 lakh from the accused identified as Sagir and Alam.
"During the interrogation, the accused revealed that the seized heroin was supplied by one Mohammed Atif of Barabanki and thereafter, all out efforts were made to trace the supplier.
He was apprehended by the NCB team and being questioned," said a Narcotics Control Bureau official.
He also said that the consignment was to be taken to Nepal and then to other countries.
NCB also disposed of drugs worth Rs 150 crore in Lucknow.