On a tip-off, Rajpur police on Thursday arrested two opium smugglers recovering Rs 14 lakh cash, one kilogram opium and chemicals used to make brown sugar. The two arrested were brought to the police station after which their interrogation started.

However, the mastermind Pintu Dangi managed to give a slip to the police. Raid was carried on the instruction of superintendent of police Rishav Kumar Jha at Charu village.

Police officials said after Jha received a tipoff, a raid was carried in Pintu's house at Charu village from where Rs 14 lakh cash, one kilogram opium and chemicals were recovered.

However, when contacted Pintu set aside the police version and stated that the recovered cash was his earned money to construct a godown in his house for business purpose. He said that police had forcefully taken away the cash from his house.

One of the arrested smugglers has been identified as Sanjay Dangi. About Pintu and Sanjay, police officials said both were in Giridih jail in a case related to smuggling of opium and got bail recently.

Officer-in-charge Anil Kumar said interrogation is going on to get information about the network of this gang. He said raids are on to nab Pintu.

This was the fourth big success of Chatra police in a month. The record says in a month, police has recovered opium worth Rs 80 lakh arresting 14 smugglers in a month.