Bhubaneswar: A court in the Odisha capital today sentenced four persons to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment (RI) after convicting them in a case of illegal brown sugar trade.

Bhubaneswar Additional Sessions Judge (III) Himansu Sekhar Mallik also imposed a penalty of Rs 1 lakh each on convicts Sk Sameer, Sayed Imtiyaj, Sk Irfan and Rati Ranjan Routray.

The four persons had assembled in a rented room at Raja Bazar in Jatni area of Khurda district on March 9, 2022 for the purpose of selling huge quantity of brown sugar in the locality.

Cops had seized 1.3 kg brown sugar from the 4 persons

On a tip-off, a team of the Special Task Force (STF) of Odisha Crime Branch raided the room and seized 1.3 kg brown sugar worth over Rs 3 crore from the possession of the four persons.

The cops had arr

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