The suspected narcotics substance seized by the ‘D’ team, dealing with drug traffickers, late on Monday evening, turned out to be sodium carbonate powder.
Though the ‘traffickers’ – Briston (45) and Sathish (43), the siblings of Rochmanagar – had claimed that the stuff was ‘white ice,’ tests at the Regional Forensic Laboratory here revealed that it was sodium carbonate powder, Superintendent of Police N.M. Mylvahanan said here on Tuesday.
After seizing about three kg of the powder at Sayalkudi, the ‘D’ team arrested the two and one Selvaraj from Pamban, who supplied the powder to them. As the team found them in possession of Rs. 500 denomination currency-sized ‘black papers’, they were arrested under Sections 420 and 511 of the Indian Penal Code and remanded in judicial custody, the SP said.
The trio planned to produce fake currency notes by dipping the black papers in water mixed with the powder, he said. The ‘D’ team had been asked to mount surveillance on the three accused and check their antecedents, the SP added.
