According to information here, a police team of Chowkham police station, working on a tip-off, chased an auto-rickshaw and stopped it at Tengapani near Manabhum forest in the evening.
The Police team found 35 grammes of brown sugar from the possession of Khamho, who concealed it in a marriage invitation card inside his handbag.
Khamho was nabbed by the police and a case registered against him at Chowkham police station last night.
The Lohit district has become a haven for the drug peddlars. Traditionally, opium is consumed and cultivated. Of late, people have started consuming banned narcotics like brown sugar and cocaine.
Meanwhile, villagers of Bubang-I & II of Changlang district led by Village Welfare Committee voluntarily destroyed the standing crops of opium in their village and surrounding area.
The villagers formed two action group and in a single day destroyed opium crops standing in more than 8.4 hectares in the mountainous terrain.