Guwahati: In a major development, Railway police seized around 700 grams of morphine at the Guwahati railway station here on Wednesday.
As per reports, the seized morphine worth Rs 60 lakh was seized from a northbound Rajdhani express.
The Railway police also apprehended three smugglers in connection with the seizure of which two of them were nabbed for smuggling morphine while one was for possession of cigarettes.
A few days back, personnel of the Government Railway Police (GRP) arrested four persons from the Dibrugarh-New Delhi Rajdhani Express at the Guwahati Railway Station after recovering 10.11 kg of opium from their possession.
As per the GPF sources, the market value of the seized opium was around Rs 10 crore and the same was being transported from Dimapur in Nagaland to Howrah in West Bengal.
The arrested persons were identified the arrested persons as Sujiot Kumar (28) of Motihari in Bihar, Nitesh Kumar (23) of Sheohar in Bihar, Naina Devi (45) of Sheohar in Bihar, and Durga Devi (23) of Muzaffarpur in Bihar.
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