An enormous quantity of medicine has been seized by Assam police in Guwahati in current occasions.
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The DIG of Special Task Force state stated the accused was caught after data was obtained relating to a automobile carrying narcotics from Manipur
Two folks had been apprehended after 1.8 kg of heroin was seized from their possession by the police on Tuesday in Assam’s Saraighat.
The accused have been recognized as Sonu Ali of Garigaon and Arjun Basfore of Jalukbari had been nabbed by a group led by Additional STF Kalyan Pathak below the supervision of Partha Mahanta DIG, STF in North Guwahati.
Northeast India, which shares a protracted stretch of border with neighbouring Myanmar, has typically been utilized by drug peddlers as transit to smuggle medicine from Myanmar to India. An enormous quantity of medicine has been seized by Assam police in Guwahati in current occasions.
The DIG of Special Task Force state stated the accused was caught after data was obtained relating to a automobile carrying narcotics from Manipur.
“The same was intercepted at Saraighat but the peddlers getting wind of the police presence fled towards Changsari. In order to subdue the occupants, two rounds were fired. The vehicle was searched and indicated the presence of a hidden chamber which was cut open and disclosed the presence of 1 kg 800 gms heroin. The same was seized,” the official stated.
On November 24, medicine value Rs 7.25 crore had been seized in Assam. On November 19, medicine with Rs 3 crore was seized in Guwahati the place six folks together with 5 Manipuri drug peddlers had been arrested. On September 12, six had been arrested in Guwahati with narcotic substance value Rs 18 crore. The police stated the consignment got here from Manipur via Mizoram, the Barak Valley area of Assam, and was headed for West Bengal. These are simply few newest data of the arrests. The Assam police has been repeatedly looking down the drug peddlers below its mission “War Against Drugs”.
A really extremely positioned supply in Assam Police instructed CNN-NEWS 18, “There are four routes through which peddlers try to smuggle drugs to India. These routes involve four northeastern states- Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura and Nagaland. Peddlers smuggle in the drugs through the borders, but they cannot take it through without crossing Guwahati in Assam, though they take it to various parts of the country. The price of the narcotic substance increases as it crosses Guwahati and gets into other parts of the country. We have our sources in the borders who inform us whenever there is something suspicious, we chase it when they enter Guwahati. Mostly the drugs are heroin, Yaba tablets and soaps amongst others.”
