The special operation group (SOG) of the Siliguri Metropolitan Police arrested two persons with narcotics on Tuesday.
Police sources said Khaibul Muhammad, a resident of Islampur of North Dinajpur and Bapi Singha, a Matigara resident were nabbed with 260 grams of brown sugar — a derivative of heroin — and 22 bottles of cough syrup during the raid at Biswas Colony, a locality under Matigara police station.
In the past 72 hours, this is the second such raid conducted by the SOG in which narcotics was seized.
In another incident, a team of the state forest department and the Sashastra Seem Bal (SSB) seized a number of illegal timber logs from different locations of Nagrakata block on Wednesday.
The team, sources said, raided areas like Dangapara, Khasbusty, Hajipara and Bamandanga.
Also, a deer horn was seized from Nagrakata. Paku Kheria, a local resident, has been arrested in this connection.