Two people, including a student, were arrested Thursday and heroin valued at Rs.3 crore in the international market seized from them in West Bengal's Murshidabad district, police said.
Acting on intelligence inputs, police intercepted the duo - Israil Sheikh (25) and Sabir Sheikh (18) - in Kalkali village and recovered three kg of heroin from their possession.
"The approximate value of the heroin is over Rs.3 crore. With Sabir being a class 10 student, we are looking if others from the school are involved. We are also probing if the two are part of an international gang," police said.
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