LUCKNOW, Oct. 22 -- A court in Barabanki has sentenced two drug traffickers to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment each in a 2017 case involving the seizure of 340 grams of heroin and 160 grams of ganja, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), Lucknow, said in a press release issued on Wednesday.

The court of the additional district and sessions judge, Barabanki, convicted Shakeel and Rampyari on Monday for their involvement in drug trafficking, the NCB said.

The case dates back to May 27, 2017, when the NCB's Lucknow zonal unit, acting on specific intelligence, seized the contraband from black bags allegedly in the conscious possession of the two accused at Barabanki railway station.

According to the agency, the two were travelling on the A...