Three arrested with heroin worth Rs 5 crore

Lucknow: Three people were arrested and heroin worth Rs five crore was recovered from their possession in Uttar Pradesh's Kushinagar district, police said.

Kamlesh Kumar Yadav, Shan Mohammad and Anwar Hussain were arrested from the Bahadurpur police outpost, and illegal firearms and five kilograms of heroin was recovered from their possession, they said.

During interrogation, the trio told police that they got the smack from a person in Barabanki and were on their way to deliver the consignment to someone in Bihar's Raxaul district, police said.