CHENNAI: The city police arrested two men from Tripura - Shahidul Islam (21) and Zahid Miya (20) - for the alleged possession of heroin capsules in the early hours of Monday.

The anti-narcotics unit of the police monitored Barracks Road based on a tip-off about drug movement in the Vepery police limits and made the arrests.

The duo were found to have 220 heroin capsules and four grams of ganja with them.