Drug peddlers arrested in Meghalaya
NNN/Shillong14 Sept 2023
A case of drug smuggling has been registered with the Rynjah police station, Meghalaya.
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A case of drug smuggling has been registered with the Rynjah police station, Meghalaya.
The NAB team reportedly seized 1240 bottles of Relex-CT containing codeine phosphate from a fast food joint in Imphal West..
The CRPF jawans seized 27 kg opium at around 11:10 am during frisking and checking at Kangvai junction, Churachandpur, Manipur.
The drug route has somehow shifted to Mizoram state which also borders Myanmar and there is a sudden spurt in drug seizures there by state police and central agencies.
Two drug smugglers along with suspected Heroin Number 4 powder were apprehended by Meira Paibis of Khanagbok part-III Cherapur Khunou Leikaion Monday at around 3 pm.
IFP Editorial: There are lot of rotten apples among the police which not only brings bad reputation to the force but defeats the very purpose of War on Drugs campaign.
A team of Kakching district commando seized as many as 50 soap cases of heroin powder from an autorickshaw (Bajaj RE) and arrested two persons from Kakching Lamkhai around 1.25 pm on Monday while a team of district commando, Imphal East detected approximately 8.11 kg of brown sugar from an autorickshaw (Bajaj RE) and arrested two persons on Sunday.
A consignment of suspected brown sugar weighing 1233 grams were seized from two persons arrested at Gilgal veng, D Phailien, Churachandpur district.
As many as 50 soap cases containing suspected Heroin No.4 powder weighing 661 grams were seized by Kakching Police at around 1.10 pm on Tuesday.
As many as 50 soap cases containing suspected heroin powder weighing around 660 grams were found inside a carton box belonging to two drug peddlers.
Brown sugar weighing around 1.32 kg from was found from the possession of two drug smugglers while 1,584 capsules of SPAS- OPAN C+ locally known as SP Tablet; 45 bottles of ANREX-CP Cough Syrup containing codeine phosphate IP 10mg (100ml each) were seized from another smuggler in Thoubal district.
IFP Editorial: The poor villagers who toil in the poppy fields, it is just another day’s work. For them, it does not matter whether it is poppy or any other crop as long as they get the wages howsoever meagre it may be.
IFP Editorial: Merely rewarding policemen for seizure of drugs and couriers is not enough. The main focus should be on investigation of the drugs which found its way into the hands of the law-enforcing agencies and in finding out who are the powerful patrons or drug-lords behind this lucrative business.
Three drug smugglers were arrested by police during frisking and checking of the passers-by along Tiddim road at about 3 am.
About 832 grams of heroin was seized along with two Myanmar made Kenbo bikes and a cash of Rs 6,220.