Mumbai: Police have arrested two people from Uttarakhand with "high quality" heroin worth Rs 1.1 crore, an official said on Wednesday.

He said that the Anti Narcotics Cell (ANC) of Mumbai Police arrested both of them from western suburb Borivali on Tuesday.

The ANC seized 280 grams of "high quality" heroin, a highly addictive drug, worth Rs 1.12 crore from them, he said.

He said that the accused was living in a rented house in the neighboring Palgha district for the last two months.

A case has been registered under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, he said, adding that the police are yet to establish from where they had obtained the drug and to whom it was to be distributed.