The city market police on Monday arrested two drug peddlers from Rajasthan and recovered brown sugar and MDMA worth ₹2 crore.
The accused Pappuram Ravi Purohith, 20, and his associate Chunnilal, 20, were caught red-handed at Godown Street in City Market while waiting to deliver drugs to clients.
Based on information from them, the police raided Pappuram's rented house in Attibele and recovered a huge cache of drugs, including 800 grams of MDMA, 600 grams of brown sugar, 1.7 kg of marijuana, two hookahs , six mobile phones and a weighing machine .
The accused were sourcing the drugs from their native Rajasthan and selling it to their old clients, the police said .
The police had obtained the information about the accused 10 months ago and were working on catching them, Sanjeev Patil, DCP, west division, said .
