UP Man Arrested With Morphine Worth Rs 3 Crore

Superintendent of Police, Yamuna Prasad, said a motorcycle along with a weighing machine has also recovered from him.

The police have arrested a man in Uttar Pradesh's Barabanki district on Saturday and recovered one kilogram of morphine worth Rs 3 crore, officials said. Superintendent of Police, Yamuna Prasad, said a motorcycle along with a weighing machine has also recovered from him. A case has been registered at the Haidargarh police station against the accused, Umashankar Dwivedi, who hailed from Khastaria village, he said. During interrogation Dwivedi said he was into smuggling along with another man named Narendra Yadav, who also hailed from Khastaria village.