Big Drug Haul by Assam Police, Heroin Worth 18 Crores Seized After Hot Chase
- Indian Masterminds Bureau
- Published on 26 Jun 2023, 1:19 pm IST
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An STF team led by ASP (HQ) Kamrup, Kalyan Pathak, gave chase and nabbed two drug dealers along with the contraband, said DGP (Admin) Partha Sarathi Mahanta, IPS
Assam Police welcomed International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking in style by nabbing two heroine dealers along with the contraband on the eve of the D-day.
Acting on a source information that a Manipur-based narcotics group was supplying narcotics through Assam, the group was tracked and chased down by a STF team led by Kalyan Pathak, ASP (HQ), Kamrup, while on its way to deliver the contraband in a Fortuner car.
In order to escape the police dragnet, the peddlers over sped and in the process lost control of the car and fell down 100 feet from the Powa-Mecca hillock in Hajo town.Related Stories
However, police caught them and search of the damaged vehicle yielded 100 soap boxes of heroin weighing 1 kg 300 gms and further search of their rented house in Jalukbari led to recovery of another 65 packets of heroin weighing 900 gms.
A total of around 2.2 kg of heroin worth Rs 18 crores in the international market were seized, said DGP (Administration) Partha Sarathi Mahanta, IPS.
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