In a breakthrough against running a racket of selling "brown sugar", the police raided a house at Adityapur Muslim Bustee and arrested a 35-year-old woman early on Friday morning.

Identified as Salma Khatoon, the woman was arrested for possessing 52 packets of brown sugar along with cash.

Revealing about the breakthrough, Seraikela-Kharsawan superintendent of police, Mohammed Arshi said they had information that a middle-aged woman was indulged in drug-peddling in Adityapur Muslim Bustee.

"As nabbing any lady drug-peddler was difficult during the day-time, a police team which has been set up for unearthing the drugs from Adityapur area, raided the house early in the morning and succeeded in nailing the lady," said Arshi while talking to reporters here at the Adityapur thana on Friday afternoon.

The SP said that Salma was the second lady drug-peddler to be arrested after the detention of the notorious Dolly Begum from the Adityapur Muslim Bustee about six months ago.

"After the arrest of Dolly, we had thought that racket of the brown sugar business will subside in Adityapur. But surprisingly, more drug-peddlers emerged from the same slum, leading the police to arrest about half-a-dozen peddlers during this period. We have, however, decided to free Adityapur from brown sugar," said the senior police officer while responding to reporters.

The Adityapur police also raided a place near Adityapur industrial area and arrested two women for selling country-made liquor.

According to the Seraikela-Kharsawan SP, the police team recovered over 50 bottles of country-made liquor from the women's possession and sent all of them to Seraikela divisional jail after producing them before a judicial magistrate in the evening.